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       Title     : Proposed HTTP State Management Mechanism                
       Author(s) : D. Kristol, L. Montulli
       Filename  : draft-ietf-http-state-mgmt-02.txt, .ps
       Pages     : 18
       Date      : 06/13/1996

This proposal specifies a way to create a stateful session with HTTP 
requests and responses.  It describes two new headers, Cookie and 
Set-Cookie, which carry state information between participating origin 
servers and user agents.  The method described here differs from Netscape's
Cookie proposal, but it can interoperate with HTTP/1.0 user agents that use
Netscape's method.  (See the HISTORICAL section.)                          

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