Re: problem using shopping cart with AOL users

[Wayne <wayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.