On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Michael Monreal <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 16:13 +0200, Xan Lopez wrote: >> In any case most sites >> doing auth with forms should auto-login you through cookies, so the >> impact of this is a lot smaller than what most people imagine when >> they hear about it. > > Even if you accept the idea to keep cookies across sessions (which many > users are not willing to do, for a reason) this is only valid for the > lifetime of a cookie. Most Forums and Web mailers limit the cookie to a > few days or weeks at most. So, I really don't think this is only a small > issue...
I didn't say it was small, only that is wasn't as catastrophic as some people want to make it. Maybe it's because all the sites I use (and I use quite a few) don't have such draconian cookie policies, but I don't have to retype my password every few days for any of them. Xan > > Cheers, > -Michael > > _______________________________________________ > epiphany-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/epiphany-list > _______________________________________________ epiphany-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/epiphany-list
