[OT] Re: New AWS-based website

[Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>]

Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com> writes:

> Slightly off-topic, but it's my general impression that a lot of
> cruft/difficulty in web-development stems from the attempt to impose
> state on what was developed to be stateless. Would you agree?

Definitely!

And now that you've got me started; why to most web developers insist on
keeping the details of my state hidden inside their system, instead of
storing the state in cookies?  (It would avoid the whole mess of
sessions timing out for no apparent reason.  And it would allow the more
adventurous visitors to adjust the state as needed.)

Greetings,

Jacob
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