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Title : HTTP State Management Mechanism
Author(s) : D. Kristol, L. Montulli
Filename : draft-ietf-http-state-man-mec-10.txt,.ps
Pages : 22
Date : 29-Jul-98
This document specifies a way to create a stateful session with HTTP
requests and responses. It describes two new headers, Cookie and Set-
Cookie2, which carry state information between participating origin
servers and user agents. The method described here differs from
Netscape's Cookie proposal [Netscape], but it can interoperate with
TTP/1.0 user agents that use Netscape's method. (See the HISTORICAL
section.)
This document reflects implementation experience with RFC 2109 [RFC2109]
and obsoletes it.
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