JavaScript considered harmful (was Re: New online index to Beazley's tutorials)

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <mailman.1010497332.23208.python-list at python.org>,
Mark McEahern <marklists at mceahern.com> wrote:
>Aahz:
>>
>> So how do you handle it when users don't permit cookies?  You refuse to
>> let them have customized pages?  You still need a session ID in the URL.
>> Why not just give them a bookmarkable page?
>
>one approach would be to require at least session cookies.

Why?  That's stupid.  Too many sites misuse cookies, so lots of people
turn cookies off.  Alex's point about cookies for storing login
information across sessions at least makes some sense for persistent
storage, but cookies for sessions IDs is absurd.
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