Before I read an article about the European Union POV of cookies I hadn't really thought of myself as someone who would violate basic human rights. I guess this goes to show that one has to be ever vigilant in today's society. The resolution banning cookies did not pass the EU Parliament, this time. A ban on unsolicited SMS messages like those sent via a cell phone was approved (http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/11/14/eu.spam.cookies.idg/index.html) .
We use cookies to track session state here and have had no complaints. I don't think it is wrong to require the use of cookies. Of course to make everyone happy you could backup cookies with some sort of non-cookie based state management, like a URL encoded sessionid or a hidden form field passed in every page. Like everything, your mileage will vary with any implementation you choose to use. --Joe Breeden --------------------------------------- If it compiles - Ship It! > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew Ho [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 2:17 PM > To: Charles Day > Cc: John Michael; mod_perl List > Subject: Re: Cookie authentication > > > Hello, > > 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. > > Not those clever European governmental folks, though. > > http://www.vnunet.com/News/107416 > http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2099128,00.html > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1653000/1653907.stm > http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/11/14/eu.spam.cookies.idg/ > > 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. > > Humbly, > > Andrew > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Andrew Ho http://www.tellme.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice 650-930-9062 > Tellme Networks, Inc. 1-800-555-TELL Fax 650-930-9101 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >
