I have a general question about websites that use cookies to store session
information:
Why should they expire at all?
Let me give you an example. Yesterday, I was at Amtrak Rail's website to
purchase train tickets. Now, I multitask a lot, and sometimes I might
leave one browser window idle
Philip Mak [EMAIL PROTECTED] asked:
I have a general question about websites that use cookies to store session
information:
Why should they expire at all?
Let me give you an example. Yesterday, I was at Amtrak Rail's website to
purchase train tickets. Now, I multitask a lot, and
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From: "Philip Mak" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 11:13 AM
Subject: Should cookies expire?
I have a general question about websites that use cookies to store session
information:
Why should they expire at all?
Let me give you an example.
0 11:13 AM
Subject: Should cookies expire?
I have a general question about websites that use cookies to store
session
information:
Why should they expire at all?
Let me give you an example. Yesterday, I was at Amtrak Rail's
website to
purchase train tickets. Now, I multi
, this is not an issue, but on many sites the
amount of information that is needed to be stored on a per-session
basis is a bit large for a cookie.
-Paul
-Original Message-
From: Philip Mak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 2:14 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Should cookies
