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

• To: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Subject: Re: Re: Cookies at XML Europe 2004 -- Call for Particip ation
• From: Robert Koberg <rob@k...>
• Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 22:16:32 -0800
• Cc: XML-DEV <xml-dev@l...>
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Simon St.Laurent wrote:

> rob@k... (Robert Koberg) writes:
> 
>>>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?
> 
> 
> I wish my bank offered this, yes.  Given the ID they assigned, the
> password is the only thing strongly protecting the account.

that and some random session identifier for your session, right?

> 
> I can live with public IDs - none of my usernames are hard to guess, so
> they're visible doors.  Without the key, the password, the door is
> meaningless.
> 
> Can we get back to XML please?  

just trying to fit in :)

> I wrote a book on XML and a book on
> Cookies, but I don't think they mix very well.

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