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How to you define absurdly long? How does the size of the cookies compare to the size of the image in an add banner, or even just the *.html file?
by gizmo686 13y ago
How to you define absurdly long? How does the size of the cookies compare to the size of the image in an add banner, or even just the *.html file?
- lucb1e 13y agoWell, considering that you can easily identify every person on the planet uniquely with 5 bytes (256^5=1 000 000 000 000), I'd say these 200 byte+ cookies are much longer than needed. It suddenly starts making good sense that Google's spdy protocol compresses headers...
- qu4z-2 13y agoBear in mind that the cookie is included in the request, so it has to be uploaded by the user, unlike the ad banners or HTML. Upstream bandwidth is often slower than downstream.