Re: Netscrape's Cookies
Alex Strasheim <cp@proust.suba.com> said:
The best answer would probably be to use the kind of pop-up messages you get when you're going to submit a secure or insecure form. "You're about to send a cookie back to a web server, continue or abandon?" "You're about to send mail from a web page, do you want to do that?" Give people the ability to turn the messages off -- that way functionality isn't impaired.
I find that a very good solution providing that the browser say:
"You're about to send a cookie...." Here, I would add: "... that contain the following information:"
(information list) "... back to a web server, continue or abandon?" Otherwise, it not as worse, but still in the same spirit as to sign a blank check to a stranger... ( I am telling you... it's been *at least* a million years that I did not exagerate! :) Regards to the vast majority of CPunk JFA **** NEW PGP 2.6.2 KEY ********* 2048 bits Key ID:24201BA1 1996/02/13 Jean-Francois Avon <jf_avon@citenet.net> Key fingerprint = 23 B6 24 31 86 67 FB 35 C7 A7 AF 12 A1 61 E9 3D **** OLD KEY: DO NOT USE ANYMORE UNLESS FOR VERIFYING SIGNATURES **** 1024 bits Key ID:57214AED 1995/10/04 Jean-Francois Avon <jf_avon@citenet.net> Key fingerprint = 84 96 76 AE EB 7C AB 15 88 47 87 B0 18 31 74 9F
Jean-Francois Avon JFA Technologies, QC, Canada wrote:
Alex Strasheim <cp@proust.suba.com> said:
The best answer would probably be to use the kind of pop-up messages you get when you're going to submit a secure or insecure form. "You're about to send a cookie back to a web server, continue or abandon?" "You're about to send mail from a web page, do you want to do that?" Give people the ability to turn the messages off -- that way functionality isn't impaired.
I find that a very good solution providing that the browser say:
"You're about to send a cookie...." Here, I would add: "... that contain the following information:"
(information list)
"... back to a web server, continue or abandon?"
Otherwise, it not as worse, but still in the same spirit as to sign a blank check to a stranger...
The problem with this approach is that some sites are already obscuring or encrypting their cookies. I think our merchant system may even do it for the user shopping basket. --Jeff -- Jeff Weinstein - Electronic Munitions Specialist Netscape Communication Corporation jsw@netscape.com - http://home.netscape.com/people/jsw Any opinions expressed above are mine.
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