Just today I was having a discussion with some of my co-workers about using cookies or URL parameters for session handling. Or to be more precise: We didn’t discuss technical issues, but we thought about how many people there are, who disable cookies on their own or who have to disable cookies due to system policies.
I remember that the choice between cookie-based session-handling or URL token based sesion handling was a rather big topic some years ago. Well, it’s way easier to implement today anyway, but I wonder if people would bother at all? You know what I mean, maybe nearly all of the surfers have cookies enabled nowadays?
What’s your opinion? How do you build your apps 2006? 😉
A co-worker tipped me off to the fact that one could use URLSessionFormat to make this question moot.
I pretty much always use cookie sessions, I don’t know anybody that turns cookies off completely.
I think most people that are concerned about cookies use tools that lets the user block cookies selectively. If they want to use your site, they’ll let your cookie through.
I follow the 20/80 rule and use cookies. I suppose who cannot satisfy everyone and for session management, cookies will be a better way to go.
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