On Thursday 31 of January 2008 18:27:39 Bruno Bowden wrote: > That's a very interesting point Piotr. What about a special type of > UserPref that has the same interface as a cookie. The makeRequest would > then treat that UserPref as the cookie data when communicating with the > proxy (whether it puts the data in the request or not is an implementation > detail). Then on the proxy, it would retrieve that data and use it as a > real cookie on the external request. If the request result included > changing the cookie, that data would be passed all the way back to the > UserPref.
That's an interesting idea. I think it could work for most cases, but some lower level API would be nice too, if greater flexibility is necessary. > For sites that are dependent on cookies, this would make porting to a > gadget much easier. I'm sure there are more issues, e.g. cost of uploading > large cookies. Hmm, large cookies, didn't think about this... We could probably limit the cookie size, but on the other hand I think slow gadgets will just die on their own :) -- Best Regards, Piotr Jaroszyński
