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Re: New site stuff
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lugnet.admin.general
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Fri, 2 Jul 1999 18:12:28 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, "Mike Faunce" <mfaunce@earthlink.net> writes:
> Todd Lehman wrote in message ...
> > The most elegant solution, of course, is just to know the user's
> > preference for how they enjoy the homepage, and display one or the
> > other from the same URL.
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> Couldn't you use a cookie to determine which "home" page a user wanted?
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> Default/no cookie = http://www.lugnet.com
> Cookie set = http://www.lugnet.com/power (or whatever)
Yup, that's exactly how it'll be accomplished. Except there only needs to
be one URL (not two), and the code running at that URL (will) looks and sees
what the user prefers and decide on-the-fly what to display.
But since the cookie has to be site-wide for a preference like that, it
makes the most sense to compactly store only the member ID#/pw combo in a
cookie and then look up the preference from that on the server. Preferences
over time will probably amount to quite a bit of data, and the smaller a
cookie is, the faster pages load on slow connections. Cookies are sent by
the browser via HTTP on every mouse click within the region they're defined
for. For example, the cookies that are stored now for news-posting
identities are localized to URLs beginning with /news/post/ so that they
don't slow down things outside of that area; they're never sent by the
browser when the user clicks on pages outside of the /news/post/ area.
--Todd
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| Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) Couldn't you use a cookie to determine which "home" page a user wanted? Default/no cookie = (URL) set = (URL) (or whatever) Mike (25 years ago, 2-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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