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Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote: > I understand that you may have limited resources. Many organizations do. > What I don't understand is why it's easier or cheaper to do it the wrong > way than the right way. HTTP authentication is built into web servers. > It's straight-forward to support out of the box. It takes about five > minutes to set up securely. It is much, much easier to use than cookies > are. Why do sites insist on using cookies for user authentication? I've seen a lot of sites that do silly heavy-Javascript navigation stuff, the kind that (when you visit their home page) show you a page saying that they've noticed your browser isn't the most recent version of IE, so please visit http://www.microsoft.com/ and download the latest version. I usually email them a big long rant about how their HTML developers are ripping them off, investing all that extra effort to make the site usable by less browsers, all for a few flashy drop down menus. Judging from responses I receive, the support staff seem to think that adding support for extra browsers is something they need to pay the Javascript developers more to do, not as something that would be there if they're paid the Javascript developers *less* in the first place. I wonder who could have put THAT idea in their heads, eh? :-) ABS
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