[Xerte-dev] Re: cookies

[Smith, John]

It's most likely to do with EU regulations on the storage of tracking cookies - you've most likely seen the prompt that appears on some websites asking you to accept while others just have a disclaimer saying "By using this site you are agreeing to... blah blah blah..."

Perhaps we need to add one of those two things though to comply...

John Smith
Learning Technologist | School of Health & Life Sciences

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Glasgow Caledonian University, Cowcaddens Road, Glasgow, G4 0BA,
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From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Smith, John [J.J.Smith at gcu.ac.uk]
Sent: 14 August 2015 13:51
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: cookies

Because cookies are bad apparently...

It's hard if not impossible to have a system where you are logged in as a user without using session cookies so the answer is yes but we don't as far as I know store any xerte specific data, beyond required login status... we could though...

John Smith
Learning Technologist | School of Health & Life Sciences

T: +44 (0)141 331 3989 | E: J.J.Smith at gcu.ac.uk
Glasgow Caledonian University, Cowcaddens Road, Glasgow, G4 0BA,
Scotland, United Kingdom
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From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney [Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk]
Sent: 14 August 2015 13:49
To: For Xerte technical developers (xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk)
Subject: [Xerte-dev] cookies

I’ve just been asked the question ‘does xerte use cookies?’

I don’t know the answer… I’m not sure why the question was asked either, but have been asked to find out,




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