Re: Possible optimization to State-Info proposal
Fisher Mark (FisherM@is3.indy.tce.com)
Fri, 25 Aug 95 12:43:00 PDT
Koen Holtman writes in <199508251129.NAA01966@wswiop05.win.tue.nl>:
>As a made-up statistic, under Dave's proposal, 90% of users will set
>their browsers on `always do state-info', because they want to use at
>least one stateful server on the web. But by doing so, these 90% of
>users allow 100% of server administrators (not just the administrator
>of the stateful site the user is interested in) to gather clicktrail
>statistics by using (abusing) the enabled state-info support in their
>browsers. 60% of the 90% of users does not care about this, the
>remaining 30% would have rather had a web protocol that would give
>better privacy protection.
Me for one.
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Mark Fisher Thomson Consumer Electronics
fisherm@indy.tce.com Indianapolis, IN