Guidelines on handling cookies on domains about frontend-playbook HOT 4 CLOSED

Old but maybe useful https://yuiblog.com/blog/2007/03/01/performance-research-part-3/

There is probably more Y! docu out there as this stuff was a big deal there. IIRC there was a process whereby teams co-ordinated to stuff what they wanted into cookie values, effectively sharing the cookie.

I think there is also stuff in https://hpbn.co/ about getting cookies to fit inside packets & frames of a certain size, if we want to get really hardcore

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If we are doing work on this front, can we measure the scale of the problem now please so we can assess the need and measure the benefit of any subsequent gains?

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What would be the scope of this? What problem are we trying to fix exactly?

We usually don't set up cookies in the frontend (unless we consider third-party stuff part of our frontend, but we have no control over those).

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Closing this. We may want to document something about "how to handle 3rd party cookies" at some point, but only when we've figured out how :)

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