June 27, 2001
The cookie fuss
The cookie fuss
It's relatively simple for Web site designers to build their applications to work perfectly well with browsers that don't accept cookies; doing so would avoid a technology that many consumers either don't trust or don't understand. Applications can pass state identifiers in URLs or in hidden form fields and thus avoid cookies altogether. We advocate that Web sites switch to URL state encoding and fully disclose what user information is collected at their sites.
Posted by rshah at June 27, 2001 12:00 PM