the odd characters thing is from "escaping" those characters that could be intpreted by the code as special characters. In unix for example, you can sometimes escape to a shell with !, < and ? are characters in PHP that can be used to execute commands, etc. Simply security, but there are ways to take those characters as input safely...they probably just haven't bothered.
The login thing... sometimes I wonder about that too. I think they use cookies to some degree but some stuff is still buggy, like the bookmarking thing (on occasion).
-Ed
The login thing... sometimes I wonder about that too. I think they use cookies to some degree but some stuff is still buggy, like the bookmarking thing (on occasion).
-Ed