On Tue, 30 Jul 1996, Paul Weber wrote:
On Jul 30, 10:25am, Richard Hobson wrote:
Subject: Re: Cookie Requests ------------------------------------8<------snip certainly doesn't seem to perform any "useful" function as far as the user is concerned. (Or do I get Club points? :-) ---------------------------------------8<---------------snip Cookies can provide a valuable service to both "user" and "provider," and --------8<---------
Increasingly many commerce sites (eg catalog purchasing) employ "virtual shopping baskets" realised using cookies. Useful for multiple selections. As the web gets used more as a business-to-business medium this will become commonplace, like it or not. Rgds., Alan Mills at Venus Internet Ltd, 24 Denmark Street, London WC2H 8NJ, UK email:alan@venus.co.uk web:http://www.venus.co.uk Tel: +44 (0)171 240 5858 Fax: +44 (0)171 240 5859 Providing Web and Internet services and solutions ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to listserver@ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa@ic.ac.uk)