Re: can't really be LAST CALL,
Foteos Macrides (MACRIDES@SCI.WFBR.EDU)
Wed, 23 Jul 1997 17:43:11 -0500 (EST)
"David W. Morris" <dwm@xpasc.com> wrote:
>On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, Larry Masinter wrote:
>>> Too much icing on the cookie, just say no.
>
>[...]
>
>The difference between the Comment attribute and the CommentURL is the
>difference between the Windows application which provides a message
>box with a message like:
> "Unable to write bookmark file"
>and one which presents the message:
> "Unable to write bookmark file:
> C:\home\user\internet\bkmrks.fil
> because the file already exists and is owned
> by another user"
>In the first case, only a user familiar with the application internals
>could guess where to start looking. In the second case, the average
>reasonably knowledgable user of the operating system usage would have
>a good chance at successful problem resolution.
Note that even in that example, you are restricting yourself
to ASCII characters. :)
>If user privacy is important to our protocol effort, we must make it
>>possible for the user to receive sufficient information for informed
>>consent. If we don't, the user community will throw their hands up
>>and take the course of least resistance and all of our concern about
>>cookie sharing will be moot.
>>
>>In other words, I don't consider CommentURL as icing on the cookie,
>>it is central to any possibility of achieving user control over
>>privacy.
I doubt it will be considered icing by users whose language
is not adequately accomodated by the device of try to stuff a body
into the value of a Set-Cookie2 header's comment attribute. :)
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