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| author | http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~willu/ <http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~willu/@web> | 2008-11-19 00:10:10 -0500 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2008-11-19 00:10:10 -0500 |
| commit | 3c9c348578abbb0f687ccb6a41540d4a5e124af5 (patch) | |
| tree | bca258bf07b97e8de2a5671689d42f3ddd17327a | |
| parent | 23f5874a56f66c0bb5d5921d21418c7363786b1b (diff) | |
Client side cookie detection with javascript?
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/bugs/login_page_should_note_cookie_requirement.mdwn | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/bugs/login_page_should_note_cookie_requirement.mdwn b/doc/bugs/login_page_should_note_cookie_requirement.mdwn index 32d971548..96686053c 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/login_page_should_note_cookie_requirement.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/login_page_should_note_cookie_requirement.mdwn @@ -18,12 +18,16 @@ Even better would be to only display the cookie note as a warning if the login p > time to check if it took, which is both complicated and probably would > look bad. +>> Might this be possible client-side with javascript? A quick google suggests it is possible: +>> <http://www.javascriptkit.com/javatutors/cookiedetect.shtml>. MJR, want to try adding +>> that? -- [[Will]] + Best of all would be to use URL-based or hidden-field-based session tokens if cookies are not permitted. > This is not very doable since most of the pages the user browses are > static pages in a static location. >> The pages that lose data without cookies (the edit pages, primarily) ->> don't look static. Are they really? --[MJR](http://mjr.towers.org.uk)a +>> don't look static. Are they really? --[MJR](http://mjr.towers.org.uk) >>> As soon as you post an edit page, you are back to a static website. |