New on-line instrument approach plate service

In article ,
Ron Garret wrote:

http://siap.awun.net/

Why does the site require cookies?

It looks like a session ID cookie. It's not persistent across browser
restart. Very common when the web application is written using many
widely used framework.

-M

In article . com,
"M" wrote:

It looks like a session ID cookie.

That's right, it's just a session ID. At the moment I'm using it for
traffic monitoring so I can tell how many unique visitors I have to the
site. That in turn will help me figure out if I can make the thing
self-sustaining. I don't need to make a profit on it, but I do need to
make enough to cover the bandwidth costs. Approach plates are pretty
big documents.

It's not persistent across browser
restart. Very common when the web application is written using many
widely used framework.

That's true, but in this case the site is written using a framework I
developed myself. The idea is to some day support advanced features
that require login accounts, like having the site keep track of which
plates you've already downloaded so that you can ask for all the plates
that have changed since the last time you downloaded them. The
infrastructure for creating and managing accounts is all there, just not
being used at the moment.

Just FYI,
rg