Re: ONLINE-ADS>> A Proposal for Browser-Based Data Storage and

Kenneth C. Jenks (mindseye_at_tale.com)
Fri, 10 Jan 1997 23:03:51 -0600

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Mark J. Welch, Esq." <markwelch_at_ca-probate.com> wrote:

>What I find irritating is that every site has to separately ask
>for -- and I must separately enter -- the same data over, and over,
>and over again. Name, company name, mail address, age,
>CPU type, single/married, whatever. I always type the same
>darned information. Why not save me the time?
>
>Why doesn't someone create a protocol so that the web browser
>(or a plug-in or other method) can store commonly-requested
>data locally, and I can enter all (or part) of that information
>at my leisure while offline?

I've done exactly that, but I made it mostly server-based so that it works
with all browsers that support cookies, and it doesn't eat up space on the
user's computer. I can (and do) store user profiles on my server, tale.com.
I could (but do NOT) allow any other server to access these profiles, even
without the knowledge or permission of the user.

My server sets a cookie on the user's computer. The cookie spec doesn't
allow your server to read my cookie, but it does allow my server to tell
your server what my cookie is. It's complicated, but it works. I wrote the
thing in Perl.

I spent a day or two proving the technology, but after talking about it with
my staff, I've shelved the whole thing for use at Mind's Eye Fiction. A
reasonable respect for privacy kills this whole concept.

But just because it doesn't work for my business doesn't mean it won't work
for yours.

-- Ken Jenks, Editor-in-chief, Mind's Eye Fiction
http://tale.com/ -- The First Web Publisher
MindsEye_at_tale.com

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