[2394] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: Smart Fine Print
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leonard H. Smith)
Fri Jul 12 08:27:30 1996
From: "Leonard H. Smith" <lensmith@mta-usa.org>
To: Vassilis Risopoulos <risopoul@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 22:38:12 -800
Reply-to: lensmith@mta-usa.org
CC: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
> I don't
> understand why there is so much noise about cookies. I think they
> are much more usefull then hidden input fields in forms and they do
> my life a lot moree easier when I want to track somebody running
> through my web pages. As far as I know, a server cannot request a
> cookie. The client sents to the server all cookies corresponding to
> the domain and the path set by a 'set cookie' header. Vassilis.-
>
The level of parinoia here is interesting.
I think the real question is: what methods are used to access the client
computer's cookies and what restrictions are there? What information
is stored in cookies and how is that information generated? Another
question revolves around creative
variations on the theme....what method variations are possible?
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