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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: kdeinit
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2000-04-05 11:12:00
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On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 12:32:53PM +0100, Richard Moore wrote:
> 
> 
> David Faure wrote:
> 
> > >
> > > I 100% agree. Perhaps even kio_http should try to launch kcookiejar
> > > itself?
> > Hmm, are cookies HTTP or HTML specific ?
> > I'd say HTML, but OTOH we don't want cookies in an HTML mail, as
> > somebody pointed out... :)
> 
> Cookies are part of HTTP, they're not directly related to HTML.
> For example people like doubleclick use cookies associated with images.

ok

> This also applies to HTML mail: It sometimes references a remote advert
> by having an <IMG SRC="some-banner-ad.gif"> which could in theory have
> a cookie.

Well, the point is that kind of stuff is not really wanted
by most people ;-)

> I would say they should be handled by kiohttp, though I would like some
> fairly powerful tools to manage them to be available to users.

kcookiejar comes with quite a lot of command line options,
thanks to Waldo. All we need is the GUI for them ;-)

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