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Re:Scaling Play to Thousands of Concurrent Requests by gnaritas on Friday September 06, 2013 @03:31PM (#6342184)
As long as you encrypt it, sure you can. It's no different than storing the session pointer in the cookie.
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Re:Scaling Play to Thousands of Concurrent Requests by ChrisAntaki on Friday September 06, 2013 @05:27PM (#6342774)
Though, with every HTTP request, the client will be uploading the entire cookie. This could manifest as degraded responsiveness, especially for mobile devices.
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Re:Scaling Play to Thousands of Concurrent Requests by gnaritas on Friday September 06, 2013 @05:33PM (#6342813)
That's the trade you make when using cookies. Nothing new there.
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Re:Scaling Play to Thousands of Concurrent Requests by ExpiredLink on Saturday September 07, 2013 @05:00PM (#6346605)
Encrypted cookies? Just what hackers have been waiting for.
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