SpringFlowers AutumnMoon wrote: > is it true that Rails depend on cookies? It seems that flash is a part > of session, and session uses cookies... so when i disable cookie in > Firefox, what was working became > > ActionController::InvalidAuthenticityToken > > so is it true that for a RoR app to work, cookies are mandatory?
FYI: Cookies are required for practically every web based application on the internet. This is not at all unique to Rails. There are only a limited number of ways to maintain session state. 1. Using cookies (my guess is > 80% of sites use this method), 2. Putting a session id in the URL (ugly, but works). 3. Hidden fields in forms to pass state from one request to another (very ugly, but requires no client-side storage of state). 4. HTML 5 local session storage (not practical since it'll take Microsoft years to support HTML 5. They can barely do HTML 4). I believe option 4 is the way forward since it provides all the benefits of cookies, and practically none of their shortcomings. Just don't expect that to be practical anytime soon. Note: Safari 4 public beta has complete support for HTML 5 local storage (maybe others too). Let's just hope the others eventually catch up. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
