Fleury wrote: > That is the problem. Like many folks I hate cookies, unasked for > corporate intrusion and a security accident waiting to happen. I can > set prefs in firefox to allow cookies for this service as an exception, > and will try setting an exception for http://127.0.0.1:9000/, but I'm > not sure if that will work. Please consider giving us an actual > preference option to set in gui, cookies are a cop out.
Cookies are a way of life on the 'net. There were many concerns about security issues with cookies in the last century. Because of this, most modern implementations do not store any real values in the cookies, just a nonce that is used to lookup parameters in a webside/webapplication database. As a result, you don't trust any data from the cookie, and if someone changes the cookie (its a personal computer after all) all it does is lose the link to the data. One can argue as to whether or not using cookies has a potential for 'security accidents' but most of the old concerns are no longer valid. Preference options in the GUI are always a nice thing to have. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
