On Mon, 2012-06-04 at 17:53 -0400, Paul M Foster wrote: > On Sun, Jun 03, 2012 at 10:21:21PM +0100, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > > > > > > > Al <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > >Disabled cookies use to be a problem years ago. What's your > > >experience these days. > > > > > >I need it for my session ID. As I read the docs, the old method of > > >appending it to the URL is a security issue. > > > > > >I can obviously save the ID in a temp file which can be read by all > > >the pages needing it. > > > > > >Al.... > > > > > >-- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, > > >visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > There is a new law been passed in the UK that makes non-essential > > cookies opt-in only, so you must get permission in order to use them. > > Good lord. I'm glad the U.S. Congress has not gotten together to pass > laws about how we build websites here. I'm not sure I could take > less-than-bright government bureaucrats telling me how to do the job of > programming. No offense, Ash, but you can keep your parliament. > > Paul > > -- > Paul M. Foster > http://noferblatz.com > http://quillandmouse.com > Yeah, it's been such a pain, as nobody over here is quite sure how the hell it'll be enforced either, or if it even will be. It's also pretty vague as to just where the line gets drawn. The official government sites on this are pretty black and white, but don't clearly address the grey areas. I think this is definitely a case of the persons making the laws don't understand the technology involved, which sadly seems to be the case across a lot of tech laws being passed world-wide of late :( -- Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
