Re: [Fwd: another possible ietf-http-ext work item: proxy cookies ]

Woodhouse, Gregory J. wrote:
> 
> I guess I'm not quite sure what a proxy cookie is. I envision a proxy
> sending a cookie to a client which would then be included with future
> requests to the proxy and which the proxy would somehow use to better
> service the request. Is this what you have in mind? How would this kind
> of state information allow proxies to better service requests?

That's the general idea.

I wouldn't want to predict all possible uses, but one obvious one is to
store user-to-proxy preferences of some sort.

Dave Kristol

Received on Monday, 23 March 1998 16:26:02 UTC