Comments on: The skinny on cookies http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2009/08/21/the-skinny-on-cookies/ Essential knowledge for making your web pages faster. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:46:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: RK http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2009/08/21/the-skinny-on-cookies/#comment-766 RK Mon, 24 Aug 2009 05:09:26 +0000 http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/?p=488#comment-766 I checked Google's Browser Security Handbook recently & I'm glad it is updated for IE 8. As per that document, the maximum number of cookies per site in FF2, Safari & Opera are infinite and it is 100 for FF3 - http://code.google.com/p/browsersec/wiki/Part2#Same-origin_policy_for_cookies I checked Google’s Browser Security Handbook recently & I’m glad it is updated for IE 8. As per that document, the maximum number of cookies per site in FF2, Safari & Opera are infinite and it is 100 for FF3 – http://code.google.com/p/browsersec/wiki/Part2#Same-origin_policy_for_cookies

]]> By: Patrick Meenan http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2009/08/21/the-skinny-on-cookies/#comment-765 Patrick Meenan Sun, 23 Aug 2009 02:00:11 +0000 http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/?p=488#comment-765 One REALLY easy way to blow out those cookie lengths is to encode the current url into a cookie. We have seen it with some user tracking services for tracking the path through a site. Combine that with freakishly long urls (a problem in and of itself) and you get random pages causing browsing problems downstream because they blow the 8k limit. One REALLY easy way to blow out those cookie lengths is to encode the current url into a cookie. We have seen it with some user tracking services for tracking the path through a site.

Combine that with freakishly long urls (a problem in and of itself) and you get random pages causing browsing problems downstream because they blow the 8k limit.

]]> By: David King http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2009/08/21/the-skinny-on-cookies/#comment-763 David King Sat, 22 Aug 2009 15:52:04 +0000 http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/?p=488#comment-763 Nice article! Not a problem I've ver encountered, but it's all about prevention over cure ey! Nice article! Not a problem I’ve ver encountered, but it’s all about prevention over cure ey!

]]> By: Nicholas C. Zakas http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2009/08/21/the-skinny-on-cookies/#comment-761 Nicholas C. Zakas Sat, 22 Aug 2009 04:52:26 +0000 http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/?p=488#comment-761 That limit is important because some browsers (Chrome and Safari) don't limit the total size of cookies they will send, so you can set cookies to larger than 8 kb and actually cause a server error as a result. That limit is important because some browsers (Chrome and Safari) don’t limit the total size of cookies they will send, so you can set cookies to larger than 8 kb and actually cause a server error as a result.

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