Re^2: Warn people who have perlmonks in a URL? (cookies!)

No, I don't want www.perlmonks.org and perlmonks.org to share a cookie. I don't see any advantage to that. The cookie "problem" is only due to people making links with hard-coded site information and we can address that source of the problem so what advantage is there to also addressing the same problem in a different way that doesn't address it very well?

But the real reason I don't want to do this is because being able to have multiple cookies is an advantage. Every user can justify having 3 different cookies: logged out (no cookie -- when you want to see how your node looks to the average user), logged in, and logged in using "ticker" mode so that they don't show in "Other Users" (useful when you want to read/research/whatever but aren't paying any attention to the chatterbox and so don't want others to think you are hanging out when you won't notice them trying to chat with you).

Now, three cookies goes well with three domains (.org, .com, and .net). But I need more than one account (tye is not in gods because it is a bad idea to spend all day as superuser) and several other people have accounts such as thepen and im2 that are used for special purposes. Some people might share a computer and have enough trust that they share a computer login and each have permanent cookies to PerlMonks at different domains. Several people have "joke" accounts that they try to be humorous with (and now we are close to the type of "extra accounts" that are discouraged and can even get you into trouble...). So there are at least several case where having 4 (or perhaps more) cookies can be useful. I'm quite glad that I can have 6 cookies (I use 4 pretty regularly and sometimes use more).

www.perlmonks.org is tye. perlmonks.org is "stealth" tye who is ignoring the chatterbox. www.perlmonks.com is tye  and perlmonks.com is "stealth" tye . www.perlmonks.net is AnonyMonk and perlmonks.net is an extra for when I need to test something that I can't test as any of the above.

And this could become even more useful if we go forward with vague plans about being able to have more options in a cookie (such as limited powers or custom "user settings")...

- tye

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Re: Re^2: Warn people who have perlmonks in a URL? (cookies!) by sauoq (Abbot) on Nov 09, 2003 at 05:20 UTC
With IE, you can do that without multiple domains. Just open a new IE instance (don't use ^N for a new window, that won't work.) Unfortunately, that doesn't work with all browsers. -sauoq "My two cents aren't worth a dime.";	[reply]
Re: Warn people who have perlmonks in a URL? (cookies!) by jonadab (Parson) on Nov 10, 2003 at 00:51 UTC
Is this a habbit you've developed because it so happens that the domains don't share cookies, or is it the reason that the domains don't share cookies? `$;=sub{$/};@;=map{my($a,$b)=($_,$;);$;=sub{$a.$b->()}} split//,".rekcah lreP rehtona tsuJ";$\=$ ;->();print$/` [download]	[reply] [d/l]