- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 10:41:24 +0000
- To: "Nicolas Mailhot" <nicolas.mailhot@laposte.net>
- cc: "Amos Jeffries" <squid3@treenet.co.nz>, "Willy Tarreau" <w@1wt.eu>, ietf-http-wg@w3.org
In message <9c4a1f3bd08bf10c608b2c01f01440b2.squirrel@arekh.dyndns.org>, "Nicol as Mailhot" writes: >1. at the start of a stateful interaction the server (only actor that >knows it will need state) challenges the user agent for a new unique id, >and provides a unique state tag (short so it can not be abused for >anything else) I think we can speed up this safely by allowing the client to always offer a unique ID without being asked. If the server doesn't need it, it will just ignore it. >I'm quite sure that if such a mechanism existed today the EU would have >just banned cookie use altogether. Indeed. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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