On Sat, 31 Mar 2001 10:56:22 +0200, Bernie wrote:
> Sam H wrote:
>> It would be my guess that these websites are set up to look for their
>> cookies only in certain directories on your hard drive where they
>> assume their cookies are most likely to be found.
> The server can NOT look in your harddrive.
If the server can't look into files on your HDD, then how is it that
some sites are said to be able to use spyware to track your adventures
all over the web? Also, how is that the server would think that you
have no cookies unless it looks for them someplace on your HDD and cannot
find them?
> The problem is either: (I have no idea which it is)
> 1. The server isn't following the standard.
> 2. Arachne isn't following the standard. Related to a limit on the buffer
> used for communicating with the server perhaps? I don't have the Arachne
> source handy to check it out but IIRC the buffer is shorter than what would
> be needed for all those cookies.
> Besides wheren't several of those cookies duplicates?
They appeared to be duplicates, but maybe L.D. received the same cookie
again and again because she might have persisted trying to access the same
repeatedly. If she had tried just once and then given up, then she might
not have gotten the duplicates.
Sam
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