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Re: Re: Cookies at XML Europe 2004 -- Call for Particip atio

• Subject: Re: Re: Cookies at XML Europe 2004 -- Call for Particip ation
• From: Robert Koberg <rob@k...>
• Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 19:05:47 -0800
• Cc: XML-DEV <xml-dev@l...>
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Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:

 > At 7:41 PM -0500 1/5/04, Rich Salz wrote:
 >
 >> Since you seem to have given this more than just casual thought, have
 >> you got ideas about a solution?  To be explicit, the goals are:
 >>         Authenticate clients
 >>         Allow URL's to be cut/pasted amonng participants
 >>         Limited exposure if packets are snooped
 >
 >
 >
 >
 > The solutions vary depending on the exact purpose. Restricting access 
to password protected data is different from a shopping cart is 
different from tracking users across sites. Except perhaps for the 
latter, all can be solved without cookies. In all three cases (and 
others) the user experience is improved without cookies.
 >
 > In a truly individualized situation all that's needed are URLs of the 
form http://www.example.com/page.html?username=elharo


Does your bank do this? If so, which bank do you use?
In other words, do you care if someone who knows or guesses your 
username can access your individualized situation?

-Rob

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