Use of cookies

[Sigbert Klinke]

Hi,

I'am using TiddlyWiki for my personal web page. According to the EU General Data Protection Regulation I have to ask permission (or give hint that a "technical" cookie is used) if I use Cookies on my web page. Therefore my question: does Tiddlywiki use cookies? I have seen that a cookie is used when I edited the tiddlywiki locally, but does it use it when the tiddylwiki is just visited (there I saw no cookie under Firefox)?

Thanks in advance

Sigbert Klinke

[PMario]

Hi Sigbert,

TiddlyWiki itself doesn't use cookies. ... BUT ... 3rd party plugins may!

So you have to know how the plugins, that you use behave.

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The following info doesn't effect your TW, except you use the same mechanism!

tiddlywiki.com is hosted by github and the DNS resolution for https:// is done by cloudflare. .. I did just check the network traffic in FireFox and the cloudflare server seems to add an __cfduid cookie. I don't know, what they wo with it.

[PMario]

On Wednesday, May 23, 2018 at 11:42:27 AM UTC+2, PMario wrote:

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The following info doesn't effect your TW, except you use the same mechanism!

tiddlywiki.com is hosted by github and the DNS resolution for https:// is done by cloudflare. .. I did just check the network traffic in FireFox and the cloudflare server seems to add an __cfduid

cookie. I don't know, what they wo with it.

https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200170156-What-does-the-Cloudflare-cfduid-cookie-do-

[PMario]

On Wednesday, May 23, 2018 at 9:24:43 AM UTC+2, Sigbert Klinke wrote:

... I have seen that a cookie is used when I edited the tiddlywiki locally,

How did you see that?

-m

[Sigbert Klinke]

Hi,

under Firefox I opened the "web console" and had a look to "web storage" and under "Cookies" it showed under my file with one entry. I just tried to reproduce it, but now I do not get it. Maybe the cookie was from some other opened tab.

Since I do not use any plugin, just plain Tiddlywiki, I will adapt my GDPR declaration.

Thanks a lot

Sigbert

[TonyM]

Mario,

I used the cookie jar in TWC and found it helpful being able to add user login name and password as cookies such that in my home browser these would remain set across multiple invocations of the wiki, even if I or someone else used an alternate userid password in the interim. This could make encryption more usable as well.

• Are cookies still available not withstanding the need to inform a visitor?
  
• Is their a better alternative in tiddlywiki now?
  

It would be nice for the functionality to be returned or documented when something is depreciated.

Regards

Tony