Re:UK websites place average of 44 cookies on first visit
by omh on Thursday March 19, 2015 @06:50AM
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When I visit the ICO site I also get a "civicCookieControl" cookie which you don't list. I guess that this is probably coming from javascript and your site isn't processing this?
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Re:UK websites place average of 44 cookies on first visit
by bartkappenburg on Thursday March 19, 2015 @06:53AM
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It's running a headless browser with JS enabled so it should be there... not sure why it doesn't pick it up. Thanks for the mention :-)
Re:UK websites place average of 44 cookies on first visit
by LunaSea on Thursday March 19, 2015 @07:59AM
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If you are running PhantomJs, did you encounter any issues like memory leaks and socket errors ?
I'd be interested in the solutions you used to solve issues like that if it's not proprietary / private.
Re:UK websites place average of 44 cookies on first visit
by ZirconCode on Thursday March 19, 2015 @08:59AM
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Also interested, I've tried similar things with watir webdriver and a xvfb/headless mode but the only real 'solutions' I've come across are time-outs. Needless to say it could've been heaps better.
Re:UK websites place average of 44 cookies on first visit
by LunaSea on Thursday March 19, 2015 @09:38AM
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I didn't do much testing since PhantomJS 2.0 but I know that in the past, it was recommended to reload PhantomJS every +/- 50 pages to free the leaked memory.
Re:UK websites place average of 44 cookies on first visit
by bartkappenburg on Thursday March 19, 2015 @10:48AM
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We're running HTMLUnit [1]
Re:UK websites place average of 44 cookies on first visit
by dspillett on Thursday March 19, 2015 @07:22AM
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It could also be that the cookies handed out vary geographically, or if a page includes adverts in iframes via an ad provider network the cookies you get will depend which member of the network your request is redirected to this time.