3 ms·
To me, it was cookies that opened the pandora's box of webapps. Cookies are what made user sessions, shopping carts, and everything else possible.
by chasd00 5y ago
To me, it was cookies that opened the pandora's box of webapps. Cookies are what made user sessions, shopping carts, and everything else possible.
- ComradePhil 5y agoWe could have built everything we have without cookies. Start a session and pass the session id back to all the links for that user and go fom there. So, instead of the Cookie header, you'd have the same information in the GET/POST parameters.
- dsQTbR7Y5mRHnZv 5y agoWouldn't the average user lose their session when closing the browser or navigating away in that case?