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Re: ripe/ncc likes cookies
From: Scott Howard <scott () doc net au>
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 00:58:13 -0800
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 11:32 PM, Scott Weeks <surfer () mauigateway com>wrote:
Or "ask me every time". Sites should not require cookies just to look around. I get it if there's a transaction to be made, but just to look? :-( Especially a site like RIPE!
Umm.. Before deciding what sites should or shouldn't be doing, did you actually check WHY they are setting cookies? www.ripe.net sets 2 cookies for me : serverid=ws-www-plone2 wdm_last_run=1358067104394 The first of these is a fairly typical cookie for sites to set, and is normally use for session persistence when load balancing. The second seems to be related to something they are running to check IPv4 and IPv6 connectivity, and specifically controlling that it only gets run once for each client. That seems to be a perfectly acceptable use of cookies for me, and is something that could not reliably be done any other way. Scott
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- RE: ripe/ncc likes cookies Scott Weeks (Jan 12)
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