From: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~willu/ Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:10:10 +0000 (-0500) Subject: Client side cookie detection with javascript? X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/ikiwiki.git/commitdiff_plain/3c9c348578abbb0f687ccb6a41540d4a5e124af5?ds=sidebyside Client side cookie detection with javascript? --- diff --git a/doc/bugs/login_page_should_note_cookie_requirement.mdwn b/doc/bugs/login_page_should_note_cookie_requirement.mdwn index 32d971548..96686053c 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/login_page_should_note_cookie_requirement.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/login_page_should_note_cookie_requirement.mdwn @@ -18,12 +18,16 @@ Even better would be to only display the cookie note as a warning if the login p > time to check if it took, which is both complicated and probably would > look bad. +>> Might this be possible client-side with javascript? A quick google suggests it is possible: +>> . MJR, want to try adding +>> that? -- [[Will]] + Best of all would be to use URL-based or hidden-field-based session tokens if cookies are not permitted. > This is not very doable since most of the pages the user browses are > static pages in a static location. >> The pages that lose data without cookies (the edit pages, primarily) ->> don't look static. Are they really? --[MJR](http://mjr.towers.org.uk)a +>> don't look static. Are they really? --[MJR](http://mjr.towers.org.uk) >>> As soon as you post an edit page, you are back to a static website.