Re: Session-Id

[a much-delayed response...]

hedlund@best.com (Marc Hedlund) wrote (13:23, Friday, July 21):

  > At 8:57 AM 7/21/95, Dave Kristol wrote:
  > > [...]
  > >    2) The client should (but need not, particularly to provide
  > >    compatibility with existing clients) send a SessionID request header to
  > >    a given host.  The header should be whatever SessionID header the
  > >    client last got from that host, independent of the URLs requested.
  > > [...]
  > [...]
  >         * Dave, do you intend (2) to mean that the session should be
  > persistent even past termination of the client?  I like the "startup ->
  > termination" persistence better.

I was unclear.  I intended that clients not cache Session IDs beyond the
lifetime of the client.  When you exit the client, your Session IDs vanish.

Dave Kristol