On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 12:13 AM, Ashley Sheridan <ash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 :( > Yep, When this law was discussed, they were mostly talking about completely banning cookies. Only later they figured out that there are quite a few sites that can't live without cookies... - Matijn -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
