• To: 'Eric van der Vlist' <vdv@d...>, Rich Salz <rsalz@d...>
• Subject: RE: Re: Cookies at XML Europe 2004 -- Call for Participation
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 13:23:01 -0600
• Cc: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>, Edd Dumbill <edd@u...>, David Kunkel <DKunkel@i...>, XML-DEV <xml-dev@l...>

You make an excellent point.  Do I want the information stored 
on their computer or my computer?  Considering that I can 
delete a cookie at will, this looks like a no-brainer.

len


From: Eric van der Vlist [mailto:vdv@d...]

On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 20:00, Rich Salz wrote:

> Secondarily, I don't know what the cookie is used for, but perhaps they 
> intend to eventually (or in have previously done this) support some kind 
> of session or login state; cookies are a natural for that (cf the title 
> of the cookie RFC).  Even if all that you're doing is avoiding 
> re-verifying the password, that could be enough state to make a cookie 
> reasonable.

Hmmm.... to concur, I have been thinking for a while where I'd prefer to
see some data such as the "Recently Viewed Products" stuff on Amazon
stored. I think that if I had the choice, I'd prefer to see them stored
as a cookie in my web browser than in the server's database.

Maybe we should bring cookies back from the museum of horrors and
rehabilitate them (together with XML comments, PIs and other prematurely
deprecated goodies)?

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