Re: Re: Re: Forum / Site redone

[nodialtone <nodialtone () comcast net>]

Lets all ensure that all the crumbs are vacuumed up as well.

On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 14:14, Dave Korn wrote:
> Nigel Horne wrote:
> > > Nigel Horne wrote:
> > > > > Thanks for the comments.  Site has been redone ( I re-didit )  Feel
> > > > > free to keep the comments coming.
> > > > >
> > > > > http://www.iatechconsulting.com
> > > >
> > > > Why does it attempt to store 2 cookies on my machine when all I do
> > > > visit your front page?
> > >
> > >   Because that's how PHP tracks your session ID.
> > >
> > > > Needless to say I said "no".
> >
> > Public access websites should not have session IDs just to visit their
> > frontpage.
>
>   Like it matters the tiniest little bit at all.
>
>   You can refuse the cookie if you want.
>
>   You can accept it if you want the personalisation you'll get.
>
>   You can set your browser to flush cookies at the end of the session if you 
> don't want the same server to identify you next time.
>
>   You can hang on to it indefinitely if you do.
>
>   It takes next to no space on your hard drive, is entirely under your 
> control, and it's not some kind of magical demon sent by the NSA to spy on 
> you, so who cares?
>
>   You're presenting this claim that "Public access websites" (you mean 
> 'publicly accessible' websites, I take it) "should not have" session IDs. 
> Well, /WHY/ should they not?  This claim needs justifying.  Ethical reasons? 
> Financial reasons?  Health and safety reasons?  Aesthetic reasons?  Or just 
> because Nigel Horne says so, and whatever he says is so obviously patently 
> right and true that all right-thinking people will just accept your word for 
> it unquestioningly?
>
>
>     cheers,
>       DaveK

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