Re: Delivering on talk

From: Paul Rubin (//phr.cx_at_NOSPAM.invalid)
Date: 12/31/03 

Date: 30 Dec 2003 19:36:24 -0800

Jean-Luc Cooke <jlcooke@lager.engsoc.carleton.ca> writes:
> To respond to Tom:
> - "because Java sucks"
> - Java's sandbox prohibits the applet making a socket connection to any address other then the originating server
> - JavaScript prohibits you setting a cookie to any other domain other then the domain the script was loaded from.
>
> Since we need an Applet for the performance, it must be hosted on the
> server collecting the data (not necessarily the DB server).

No, I explained how to do that without having to put the applet or the
JS on your own server. You can't send cookies to a separate site, but
you can send URL's to a separate site. So instead of a cookie you put
the data into a query parameter and send it to your site as the target
of an image tag.

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