Stateful compression of cookies (Re: Delta Compression and UTF-8 Header Values) from Nico Williams on 2013-02-11 (ietf-http-wg@w3.org from January to March 2013)

From: Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 20:09:15 -0600
To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Cc: Zhong Yu <zhong.j.yu@gmail.com>, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, "Martin J. Dürst" <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>, James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>, "ietf-http-wg@w3.org" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CAK3OfOieNOsN7=2TV_25nTr+7Y3a-fyjSGV+F7HdbEQT8cB9xg@mail.gmail.com>

... sounds like an oxymoron.

HOWEVER, we can probably use a combination of server-side state stored
[encrypted] in state cookies, small session identifiers, and
server-side caching of state cookies.  Clients would normally only
send the [small] session IDs, and would send the cookies only when the
server needs them to [re-]establish state after it falls off the
server's cache.

On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
> [1] We can probably do much more for transmission efficiency by killing
> cookies and adding client provided session-identifieres, than any
> kind of encoding or compression will ever be able to...[2]

Received on Monday, 11 February 2013 02:09:39 UTC