Do you allow session cookies?

question for anyone that has cookie set to warn before accepting

[kris_winter]

Here is a question for anyone that has there cookie setting to warn before accepting.

Do you allow session cookies without a warning?

I have no way of knowing how to determine this so a poll seems the only way.

[BlobFisk]

Hey kris_winter,

Are you talking about a server side session cookie? This is something that has to be applied in conjunction with the server, while a general site cookie can be applied at tyhe front end...

[kris_winter]

I was trying to get an indication of how many users diable cookies but allow session cookies (ones that expire when you close the browser) i.e they are happy to use cookies as long as it doesnt leave any footprint on there PC

[m_shroom]

Session cookies are not really cookies they are a an alternet method of saving state. If a web site requires cookies for navigation and you don't allow them site navigation is not possible.

Enter "session cookies" a coded string is added to the end of each and every internal link containing all the information the cookie would have contained to permit site navigation. The session cookie is now part of the web page and no warnnig is given and no harm can be done from session cookies.

[RonPK]

> Do you allow session cookies without a warning?

Yes.

m_shroom: there are two ways to pass the session ID to the next page. One is a session cookie (a cookie that gets deleted when the session ends or user closes the browser). The other is by adding the session ID to the URL. Both have the same effect: they pass the session ID to the server. The session ID is a unique string that contains no information. Session data is always stored on the server, not on the client.

HTH.

[Nikke]

It really depends.

If the first cookie question when visiting a new site is for a banner network, the second for something that looks like a counter, and the third is from the site itself, I might not.

Too many passed cookies will trigger the No click. As will cookies from unrelated sites.

However, if there is only one cookie passed, and it is from the site I am visiting, I will most probably accept it.