Most interesting!! Thanks for this insight.
I certainly understand the security/privacy concerns, but would like a way
to recognize a user of a site automatically. Perhaps with the implementation
of java something can be saved on the phone itself as an identifier.
Steve
-----Original Message-----
From: Renfield Kuroda [mailto:Renfield.Kuroda@msdw.com]
Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 6:19 PM
To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
Subject: (keitai-l) Re: Phone Number Transmission when conneting with
iMode
Stephen Carter wrote:
> So does the unique handset id correlate to the phone number so that it can
> be used to generate an email address?
>
Absolutely not. That was how it was with WAP in Japan for a time, and it
caused
pretty serious privacy concerns.
It's basically illegal for the operator to give out such customer info as
the
phone number, email id, etc.
>
> Does the browser in the iMode phones have a feature like cookies so a
> visitor can be recognized and a custom page displayed?
No client side cookies or scripting with i-mode. You must track the user
server
side, or with params in the url or something.
r e n
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