Hi Bob.

01-Apr-04 08:02:18, Bob Lawrence wrote to Rod Gasson


 RG>> Cookies are (in my opinion) a somewhat obsoleted method these
 RG>> days. Many servers now use "session ID's" in their place. It
 RG>> acheives pretty much the same purpose, but they aren't quite as
 RG>> persistant as cookies. The main benefit though is that
 RG>> sessionID's can't be disabled like cookies can (even though I've
 RG>> never seen a real need to disable cookies anyway).

 BL> If I wanted to stuff Splong's computers, I'd give serious
 BL> consideration to using a false cookie. It seems to me, to be a
 BL> perfect entry point. I know they're text, but they don';t *have*
 BL> to eb text, and you and John have already decided that text can be
 BL> anything but the 32 control characters (there are easy ways around
 BL> that too).

I rember seeing a few lines of ASCII text that when run would display the
mandelbrot set.

but you had to rename it first.

 -=> Bye <=-

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