Re: OT Cookie limit

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2001


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 37933
interpreted = N
texte = Bob Minor wrote: > > Is there a limit to the number of cookies a site can set? If so is this site > wide or machine specific. Ie can I set 10 on stlouisrams.com and 10 on > store.stlouisrams.com? > That you are asking this question at all is probably a good indication that you are trying to do too much with cookies. Cookies are intended to store small amounts of data to enable to web server to maintain sessions. Every single time that a browser asks for a page, it sends all applicable cookies. If you have 10 cookies * 4k * #users, you are pretty quickly going to slow your system to a crawl, just with the traffic due to cookies.Just store the session information in the shoppingcart or in another database, then store the key in the cookie (can you say [cart]?).John-- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4720 Boston Way Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5747------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: OT Cookie limit (John Peacock 2001)
  2. Re: OT Cookie limit (Christer Olsson 2001)
  3. Re: OT Cookie limit (John Peacock 2001)
  4. Re: OT Cookie limit (Bob Minor 2001)
  5. Re: OT Cookie limit (John Peacock 2001)
  6. Re: OT Cookie limit (Brian Stodola 2001)
  7. Re: OT Cookie limit (Michael Davis 2001)
  8. OT Cookie limit (Bob Minor 2001)
Bob Minor wrote: > > Is there a limit to the number of cookies a site can set? If so is this site > wide or machine specific. Ie can I set 10 on stlouisrams.com and 10 on > store.stlouisrams.com? > That you are asking this question at all is probably a good indication that you are trying to do too much with cookies. Cookies are intended to store small amounts of data to enable to web server to maintain sessions. Every single time that a browser asks for a page, it sends all applicable cookies. If you have 10 cookies * 4k * #users, you are pretty quickly going to slow your system to a crawl, just with the traffic due to cookies.Just store the session information in the shoppingcart or in another database, then store the key in the cookie (can you say [cart]?).John-- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4720 Boston Way Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5747------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ John Peacock

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