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Comment from Arthur on 2007-01-19

2007-01-20T04:31:37Z

Why is the expiration date for many cookies so far in the future? Forty or fifty years seems like nothing to these guys....what's the point?

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Comment from Leo Notenboom on 2007-01-19

2007-01-19T17:18:34Z

I stand corrected. I do use cookies to allow you to hit "remember me". Obviously I'm not paying attention to them myself :-).

The _u... cookies are Google Analytics, which they use to present me much of the same data that I'd see in my web server logs, only with a little more analysis.

I'll update the article. Thanks for the catch.

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Comment from Ken on 2007-01-19

2007-01-19T16:56:43Z

FYI - your comment "I don't use cookies so there's nothing to track there" isn't entirely accurate.

While you may not be using them for anything, your site is generating four cookie requests:

__utma (expires in 2036)
__utmb (expires in 5-1/2 hours)
__utmc (session only)
__utmz (expires in 6 months)

(Also, the comment posting obviously generates some cookies if you select "remember me".)

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