On 15 Nov 2001, at 12:16, Andrew Ho wrote: > CD>It seems you can't do anything online without having cookies turned on > CD>(yahoo, bankone, huntington, ebay, etrade ) and I think internet users > CD>have accepted this.
> Methinks there is a need to write a transparent "store cookies on URL" > module. I seem to recall at least one major Apache module having an option > to use URL-based authentication instead of cookie-based... but I can't > seem to find that from a cursory perusal of CPAN. http://perl.apache.org/guide/modules.html#Apache_Session_Maintain_sessi I used Apache::Session and HTML::Template to embed the session_id in the url in a recent job site.I planned this before I built the site (all templates built according to the plan :). No problems there. There were no static pages. I find cookies are used when one has a site static/dynamic pages. How do you keep a user if they click to a static page? I don't know. But one should always check if a user has cookies turned on. I recall an internal site I did for FedEx a few years back and I used cookies for it as it was before my mod_perl use. Well it turned out that the vice-president had cookies turned off. He was not a customer we wanted to ignore:) Peter "A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul." -- George Bernard Shaw
