> If they're not being used as real cookies, there's not a lot of value in > constraining them. If you want data from a third party site, just get it > back as part of the normal response. Sending cookies certainly has value, > but retrieving them doesn't seem to offer any real benefit over just > including that data in the message body. >
This is more syntactic sugar than anything. I agree is doesn't add functionality but it would make porting easier and allow more shared code with the web service and gadget version.
