Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Aleksandro Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript Subject: Re: Difference between client and server side cookie Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 13:17:45 -0300 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: <87wpp67j6w.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <2325956.yKQUHyJ2TD@PointedEars.de> <87y49m54i6.fsf@bsb.me.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 16:14:38 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="10ff5083027c7d1fb29108c9b27f70f4"; logging-data="30902"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18gq+rynv9mlEWsViAq8oq4RnKRnk49TQA=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.6.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:5qGwNzUTV2/OSYXJxiUTfWCknM8= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.javascript:29986 On 14/03/16 13:06, Evertjan. wrote: > Aleksandro wrote on 14 Mar 2016 in > comp.lang.javascript: > >>>> Your eyes are organ that exist inside your skull and let you see. If I >>>> take them off with a spoon, they cease being eyes because they are >>>> outside now and you can't see anymore? >>> >>> Nonsense, eyes don't store data, dead eyes even less than not. >>> >>> A cookie is a data-container, >>> an instance of preserving such data, >>> not the data itself. >> >> Well, they have been contained in plain text, > > So? > >> now some browsers use >> SQLite. Isn't the term affected by what contains them? > > No. But you said it's a data container, if the container is not defined by the underlying containment system, what is it then? > They "exist" because they are "stored" not because of "how" they are stored. > >> Isn't in-transit data still contained anyway? > > Not a valid argument, containment has nothing to do with it, otherwise they > could exist when still in the mind of the programmer. Actually yes, the cookie would exist in my head.