- From: Brian Behlendorf <brian@organic.com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Jul 1995 19:05:52 -0700 (PDT)
- To: Ted Hardie <hardie@merlot.arc.nasa.gov>
- Cc: Alex Hopmann <hopmann@holonet.net>, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
On Wed, 5 Jul 1995, Ted Hardie wrote: > I also wonder how difficult it would be to allow either side to open > the negotiation for a maintained session. Could we allow the server > to send "Session: maintain" in response to a request which (from the > servers' point of view) is likely to be followed by requests for which > a session-orientation is useful? Many servers would like to have > "click-trail" traces of web users' traversals; if you allow the server > to initiate a session, the current kludges using cgi scripts and > hidden variables could be eliminated. I'd rather see "clicktrails" tracked by browsers sending Session-ID: lines (which we talked about here a while ago, Bill put in emacs-W3, and I'm hoping is on the list for HTTP/1.x) than by persistant connections. You could also use that ID as a key to other stateful information the server wants to keep, but only for a short term. Also, maintaining that connection might not necessarily improve bandwidth - the thought of busy servers with 1000 concurrent parallel connections all sending KEEPALIVE packets is a little scary :) Brian --=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-- brian@organic.com brian@hyperreal.com http://www.[hyperreal,organic].com/
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