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authorhttp://mjr.towers.org.uk/ <http://mjr.towers.org.uk/@web>2008-11-18 08:20:30 -0500
committerJoey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2008-11-18 08:20:30 -0500
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@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ At the moment, you go through the login shuffle and then are told that cookies a
> websites that have a login require cookies. Such warnings used to be
> common, but few sites bother with them anymore. --[[Joey]]
+>> Very few websites break without cookies. Even fewer lose data.
+>> Can ikiwiki avoid being below average by default? --[MJR](http://mjr.towers.org.uk)
+
Even better would be to only display the cookie note as a warning if the login page doesn't receive a session cookie.
> I considered doing this before, but it would require running the cgi once
@@ -15,3 +18,5 @@ Best of all would be to use URL-based or hidden-field-based session tokens if co
> 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)