posted 21 years ago
The way you find out if cookies are disabled is by sending one out and seeing if it comes back.
Unless you're on an intranet and have clout with management, DON'T expect you can force users to turn on cookies. In the wider world, some institutions even force users to turn OFF cookies!
Cookies are OK for "preference"-type info where nothing really gets hurt if the cookie isn't accepted, but for maintaining a session, use the URL-rewriting methods and store the info on the server side with a session. That will ensure that the session is tracked, either by cookies, or of that's not possible by appending session info onto the URL that the user returns.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.