> websites that have a login require cookies. Such warnings used to be
> common, but few sites bother with them anymore. --[[Joey]]
+>> Very few websites break without cookies. Even fewer lose data.
+>> Can ikiwiki avoid being below average by default? --[MJR](http://mjr.towers.org.uk)
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Even better would be to only display the cookie note as a warning if the login page doesn't receive a session cookie.
> I considered doing this before, but it would require running the cgi once
> This is not very doable since most of the pages the user browses are
> static pages in a static location.
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+>> The pages that lose data without cookies (the edit pages, primarily) don't look static. Are they really? --[MJR](http://mjr.towers.org.uk)