Re: draft-ietf-http-state-mgmt-01.txt LAST CALL

Dave Kristol wrote:
> 
> "Marc Salomon" <marc@ckm.ucsf.edu> wrote:
>   > Does the draft address what happens when I do the following:
>   >
>   > Req:
>   > HEAD /resource HTTP/1.1
>   > Cookie: blah
>   > ---
>   > Resp:
>   > HTTP/1.1 200 OK
>   > Set-Cookie: blah
>   >
>   > or
>   >
>   > Req:
>   > HEAD /resource HTTP/1.1
>   > ---
>   > Resp:
>   > HTTP/1.1 200 OK
>   > Set-Cookie: blah
> 
> I take it you're asking what the I-D says about HEAD requests and
> responses.  It doesn't specify.

The original Netscape Cookies documentation specified
that a Set-cookie header was valid for any response code,
including Head responses, 304, and even error responses
like 404.

:lou
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