Much later than I promised, I've submitted the first Internet Draft for proxy cookies. Discussion should be conducted on the http-state mailing list. See <http://www.bell-labs.com/mailing-lists/http-state/> for information (and archives). I've also started a web page about proxy cookies: <http://portal.research.bell-labs.com/~dmk/pcookies/>. Dave Kristol
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A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. Title : HTTP Proxy State Management Mechanism Author(s) : D. Kristol Filename : draft-kristol-http-proxy-state-00.txt,.ps Pages : 8 Date : 27-May-98 This document specifies a way to create a stateful session, using HTTP requests and responses, between an HTTP proxy server and its client. It describes two new headers, Pcookie and Set-Pcookie, which carry state information between participating HTTP proxy servers and their clients. Internet-Drafts are available by anonymous FTP. Login with the username "anonymous" and a password of your e-mail address. After logging in, type "cd internet-drafts" and then "get draft-kristol-http-proxy-state-00.txt". A URL for the Internet-Draft is: ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-kristol-http-proxy-state-00.txt Internet-Drafts directories are located at: Africa: ftp.is.co.za Europe: ftp.nordu.net ftp.nis.garr.it Pacific Rim: munnari.oz.au US East Coast: ftp.ietf.org US West Coast: ftp.isi.edu Internet-Drafts are also available by mail. Send a message to: mailserv@ietf.org. In the body type: "FILE /internet-drafts/draft-kristol-http-proxy-state-00.txt". NOTE: The mail server at ietf.org can return the document in MIME-encoded form by using the "mpack" utility. To use this feature, insert the command "ENCODING mime" before the "FILE" command. To decode the response(s), you will need "munpack" or a MIME-compliant mail reader. Different MIME-compliant mail readers exhibit different behavior, especially when dealing with "multipart" MIME messages (i.e. documents which have been split up into multiple messages), so check your local documentation on how to manipulate these messages. Below is the data which will enable a MIME compliant mail reader implementation to automatically retrieve the ASCII version of the Internet-Draft.
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