- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 11:22:51 PST
- To: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
Some of the recent discussion on cookie restrictions has been wildly speculative. We risk writing a spec that puts unrealistic constraints on implementations. I'd like to ask people who are making proposals to qualify their proposals with actual implementation experience, or even some sample pseudo-code for exactly how this is supposed to work in a client. The kinds of comments that have been made recently about how we're just providing challenges for implementors are really worrisome. As a working group, we're spending WAY too much energy on cookies, when there are an enormous number of other issues that we *MUST* focus on. It may be that for us to make progress we will need to spin "state management" into a separate working group, so that HTTP-WG can focus on the core HTTP protocol. I've been resisting a push from the area directors that we should shut down HTTP-WG and create new working groups to deal with these sub-issues, but I could use some help from you (HTTP-WG members) to keep focus. -- http://www.parc.xerox.com/masinter
Received on Tuesday, 25 March 1997 12:01:28 UTC