Gerry Reno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> And what do you do when people have cookies turned off as many do? 

I hang my head in shame.

I know that this is a problem.  But maybe companies' intranet
applications can require a bit more from the web browsers than other
websites.

If you write down what the user interface looks like that we have,
then you get a pretty good list of things not to do in web
applications.  But what can I do?  I try to argue as well as I can.

For example, the belief prevails that a web application can find out
how wide in pixels is a certain string on the client: in the CSS file
you specify that you want to use the foo font in the bar size, and
then you can compute on the server side how wide is the string.  'Nuff
said.

> And how does a cookie help with an interactive remote logon session to
> say a mainframe or to a multimedia presentation, etc., etc.

If the logon session is represented by an object in the HTTP session
(in our case it is), and if you have access to the HTTP session, then
Bob's your uncle.  No?

Kai


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