"but I use sessions" It should be obvious that the cookie you're looking at is the *session* cookie. The hashed value it contains is the session id.
AD On Friday, 22 March 2013 10:01:56 UTC+1, Anna P wrote: > > Hello. > > I have following question - what are the cookies, which are set > automatically by CakePHP, for? > By cookies set automatically I mean the cookie named "CAKEPHP" with some > hashed value. > I do not use any cookies in my application (but I use sessions) and I > wonder why is there always a CAKEPHP cookie set, after visiting the page. > > The reason I'm asking is because today a law on cookies came into force(in my > country as well as in UE I guess) - from now on website operators > need to inform users about the fact that website uses cookie files. And > also, what is the purpose of using that cookies files. So the users need to > be informed of the purpose of collecting information through cookies. > > I will be very appreciated for help:) > > -- Like Us on FaceBook https://www.facebook.com/CakePHP Find us on Twitter http://twitter.com/CakePHP --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
