Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all users

Re:Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to a... by shubhamkrm on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @02:04PM (#31743413)

How did you manage session information without using cookies?

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Re:Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to a... by PaulDavisThe1st on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @03:03PM (#31744374)

   http://yourdomain.com/path/to/something?SESSION=af2828c119ae1

and yes, all URLs in every page were rewritten during page generation to include the session ID.

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Re:Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to a... by marshray on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @03:45PM (#31745007)

Didn't that break bookmarks?

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Re:Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to a... by jeltz on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @12:11AM (#31749027)

Sometimes, but usually not. What it did enable was people accidentally leaking their sessions when sharing links.

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Re:Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to a... by leaflets2 on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @04:19PM (#31758904)

What did the company do then? (When their users started accidentally leaking session IDs)

(Hmm but you're a different person :-))

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Re:Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to a... by PaulDavisThe1st on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @05:31PM (#31746336)

This was 1994. Web technology was barely even emergent.

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