cookies_authentication_problems

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Subject: Re: Cookies?
From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 13:51:13 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time)

On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Gervase Markham wrote:

> > I don't know if this has been addressed, but when the bugzilla rewrite
> > happens, will cookies be considered?  I know a few people who are
> > agianst cookies and leave them off all the time.
> > I think they are ok for keeping state, but do the cookies currently used
> > save that much space? ( rather than keeping everying in the db? ).
> > Eric H.
> 
> AIUI, without cookies, we couldn't do authentication. Could we?

Cookies will not be used for authentication. See bug 21022.

   http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20122

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