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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: kdeinit
From:       Richard Moore <rich () ipso-facto ! freeserve ! co ! uk>
Date:       2000-04-05 13:52:40
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David Faure wrote:
> 
> 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 ;-)

Yes, but that brings up the problem: How does kiohttp know if the URL
it is fetching was requested via an IMG tag? If we had some way to
inform it then we could allow a cookie profile setting that disabled
them.

> 
> > 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 ;-)

One for the jobs page perhaps?

Rich.

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