- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 23:28:01 +0000 (UTC)
On Wed, 25 Aug 2010, Aryeh Gregor wrote: > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote: > > This relies on sites actually using this feature. I don't see any reason > > to believe sites would use this enough to make a dent here. > > A lot of sites set expiration dates for cookies, don't they? Based the list of cookies on my browser, not enough of them do to make a dent here. > Yes, this would just be a convenience. I don't see anything you could > do with built-in expiration that you couldn't do without. You could > always emulate it by storing the last-modified date, and then wrapping > every access in a function that checks the last-modified date and > deletes it if it's too old. Well, the one thing you can't do that way is expire data even without revisiting the site. I just don't know if that's especially useful. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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