Re: [xml-dev] Re: Cookies at XML Europe 2004 -- Call for Particip ation

["Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@comcast.net>]

Strolia-Davis Christopher Contr MSG/MAT wrote:
> Cookies can be and are used to track individual's usage, but there
> are many other ways to track people.  When I consider the primary
> method that was used to track people using cookies, it seems to me
> that it would be nearly as easy to track people without the use of
> cookies, using login session information.
> 

One thing cookies can be good for is when you have a dynamic IP address. 
  The server can't know you by IP then, but it can know you by cookie.

Cheers,

Tom P