[8659] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: 3 Proposals: session ID, business-card auth, customer auth
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Kristol)
Wed Jul 19 12:37:58 1995
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 95 10:40:25 EDT
From: dmk@allegra.att.com (Dave Kristol)
To: john@math.nwu.edu
Cc: www-talk@www10.w3.org
Resent-From: www-talk@www10.w3.org
John Franks <john@math.nwu.edu> said:
[...]
> Brian is absolutely right though that Cookies should be persistant *only*
> for the life of a user session (Please don't tell me about kiosks, I already
> know!). I believe that this is the current Netscape behavior, documentation
> to the contrary notwithstanding.
Netscape's cookies get stored locally (~/.netscape-cookies on my Unix
box). I suspect their state carries over from one session to another.
Perhaps that's old behavior, though -- my cookie file is four months old.
Dave Kristol
