- From: Martijn Koster <m.koster@webcrawler.com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 09:27:04 -0800 (PST)
- To: koen@win.tue.nl (Koen Holtman), ruby@name.net (Matthew Rubenstein)
- Cc: jeremey@veriweb.com, www-talk@w3.org
At 9:38 AM +0100 2/7/97, Koen Holtman wrote: >Servers have no business sharing information without the user's consent, and >I therefore see not reason why sharing information in a sneaky way should be >particularly cheap or easy. If they want to share, let them embed the info >in a link where the user can see it. Oh come on -- I thought we had moved beyond that one. That screws up caching, bookmarking, indexing etc etc. Saying "Servers have no business sharing information" is too easy -- that forces the granularity pretty arbitrarily onto a domain name. Excite owns both excite.com and webcrawler.com -- would it be "sneakily sharing" if I wanted to preserve preferences between these two sites? If not, then why prevent a way to achieve this cleanly? If it is, then why doesn't the same argument hold for different server under the same domain, or even for different cgi-bin scripts on a server? Just my $.02 -- Martijn Email: m.koster@webcrawler.com WWW: http://info.webcrawler.com/mak/mak.html
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