ISSUE-76: Introduce a section at 5.2.7 on cookies

Introduce a section at 5.2.7 on cookies

State:

CLOSED

Product:

Best Practices Document

Raised by:

Jo Rabin

Opened on:

2005-11-22

Description:

Current Text

\"5.2.7 [Other general things]

[should we have some general exhortations as to simplicity, keeping retrievals
small, reducing round trips, and not sending things the device can\'t do anything
with?]

[Session management and cookies ... do we need some thing on this?]\"

We\'ve already decided not to have anything on general exhortations ... see ISSUE-32

However we ought to have something on use of cookies

Proposed Text

5.2.7 Cookies

Do not use cookies unless you know the device supports them

5.2.7.1 What it means

Cookies are frequently used both to carry out session maangement and to capture
user preferences. Many devices do not implement cookies or offer only an
incomplete implementation. In addition, some gateways strip cookies.

5.2.7.2 How to do it

Use cookies if they are known to be supported by the device on the device\'s
current access path. If they are not supported, use URL decoration, being
careful not to exceed the device\'s maximum length for such strings.

See [Techniques] for a discussion of how to implement session management.

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Related emails:

1. RE: [minutes] Thursday Dec 1 teleconference (from paul.walsh@segalamtest.com on 2005-12-02)
2. [minutes] Thursday Dec 1 teleconference (from dom@w3.org on 2005-12-01)
3. [minutes] Thursday Dec 1 teleconference (from dom@w3.org on 2005-12-01)
4. RE: ISSUE-76: Introduce a section at 5.2.7 on cookies (from jo@linguafranca.org on 2005-11-30)
5. New BP Draft 1k (from jo@linguafranca.org on 2005-11-28)
6. Re: ISSUE-76: Introduce a section at 5.2.7 on cookies (from andrea@trasatti.it on 2005-11-27)
7. [minutes] Thu Nov 24 teleconference (from dom@w3.org on 2005-11-24)
8. ISSUE-76: Introduce a section at 5.2.7 on cookies (from dean+cgi@w3.org on 2005-11-22)

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