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Title: Does Safari always request fresh logins to your sites? If it does, there’s a reason Post by: HCK on August 06, 2020, 04:05:12 pm Does Safari always request fresh logins to your sites? If it does, there’s a reason
<article> <section class="page"> <p>The whole system of web browsing and web servers was designed to be “stateless”: each page load is disconnected from each other. Cookies were invented in the very early days to serve as a kind of breadcrumb (or cookie crumb). When you log in to a website, the primary method of preserving state—of keeping an active session in which you’re remembered from page to page—is dropping a cookie to your browser that your browser in turn sends back every time it requests a page. Thus is the web crudely knit together. (With web apps, even though you’re on what appears to be a single page, all the behind-the-scenes interaction still sends cookies.)</p><p>One Macworld reader finds themselves constantly prompted in Safari to log in again when they visit any site, and they’re unclear why. I suspect an excess of privacy—or maybe just the right amount—is bedeviling them. One of the following scenarios is likely.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3569429/does-safari-always-request-fresh-logins-to-sites-heres-why.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Does Safari always request fresh logins to your sites? If it does, there’s a reason (https://www.macworld.com/article/3569429/does-safari-always-request-fresh-logins-to-sites-heres-why.html#tk.rss_all) |