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On Jan 6, 2004, at 8:54 AM, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote: > > Unless you know the user name and password, you can't get in. Once > you've typed in the URL and password, however, you can load it using > only that URL. The browser remembers the username and password for > you. (Modern browsers even have an option to remember this between > sessions.) > I'm having a hard time seeing any deep architectural distinction between using a cookie to remember a (presumably encrypted) name/password and using a proprietary mechanism in a browser to remember a name/password. Why is the former bad and contrary to the web architecture, and the latter is a good thing, even though "it is very little used on the web today?" (Why not?)
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