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couldn't encoded data be used the same way as i described using cookies
(to restore context from a shared database)?
---- Wayne <wayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> At 03:44 PM 4/27/00 -0400, Steve Thurber wrote:
> >The better B2C internet commerce applications only use cookies as
> you
> >describe -- to identify the user/session so that the full session
> context
> >can be restored from a database. But the drawback is that the site
> won't
> >work for a user who has disabled cookie use in the browser. Other
> common
> >approaches are stashing data on the page or in the address -- both
> of
> >which are more exposed.
>
> The problem with information encoded in a page is also that when
> the persistent mode not send the page to the original server, that
> information will not help at all.
>
>
>
>
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