Re: [xml-dev] Re: Cookies at XML Europe 2004 -- Call for Participation

At 8:19 PM +0100 1/5/04, Eric van der Vlist wrote:


>Hmmm.... to concur, I have been thinking for a while where I'd prefer to
>see some data such as the "Recently Viewed Products" stuff on Amazon
>stored. I think that if I had the choice, I'd prefer to see them stored
>as a cookie in my web browser than in the server's database.

It is in their database, and that's going to be the case whether or 
not they use cookies. You don't get a choice about the information 
amazon stores about you. If you don't like that, take it up with 
amazon.

Amazon is one of the few sites that comes close to getting this 
right. The site mostly works if you turn off cookies. If they used 
HTTP authentication, though, it would work 100%.
-- 

   Elliotte Rusty Harold
   
   Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
   http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml
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