Cookie Roundup

[azurelunatic]

Because it was a question (thanks, 3sperhand!), I've started a wiki page for documenting the cookies we set, and what's in them, and why.

http://wiki.dwscoalition.org/notes/Cookies

Anyone with more expertise in this than me, please feel free to jump in and help document.

The wiki takes OpenID as a login, so your http://username.dreamwidth.org should work to log in unless there's something unusual going on with your style; if you run into pages you can't edit that you need to, shout out with your wiki username and someone can make sure you've been added to the right group(s).

Comments

[epershand]

Thanks! I'm looking forward to reading this! (This is my identity over here)

[azurelunatic]

Hi! I may not have all of the dev answers, but sometimes I get to drive the wiki! *jingles keys*

[azurelunatic]

From #dreamwidth-dev:

[18:22] < geekosaur> I don't know what prefs land in cookies; prefs I set via the usual settings pages appear t not be cookie-based, though (the calibre recipes I use for LJ and DW see them) which is potentially bad news, because those recipes *do* know how to log in and I'd be surrised if RiL understood anything more interesting than HTTP auth
[18:35] < Afuna> There are two prefs for viewing preferences, if logged in. You go by saved prefs if logged but there is also a cookie set
[18:35] < Afuna> (not really here btw)
[18:39] < exor674> suuuuure
[18:39] < Afuna> Hee. Breakfast wifi. Keeps kicking me off tho :)

(this is cleaned up some from the original; I believe I've interpreted some of the typo correctly, but there's a chance I got it wrong.)

[fu]

Oh my, I'm sorry for the mangled text! I think what I meant to say was (hopefully now completely mangle-free):

"Hee oh There are two prefs for viewing preferences. If logged in, you go by saved prefs. If logged out there is instead a cookie"