Re: Stateful compression of cookies (Re: Delta Compression and UTF-8 Header Values)

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 1:20 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
> I really don't see why it should be the clients problem to store
> the servers state.
>
> If somebody needs 8k of storage for each browser that visits their
> website, they can bloody well buy their own disks...

It's a common implementation pattern.  I'm not ready to tell
application implementors to stop doing this.

It's not just the disk space, but also the need to fetch it and the
need to distribute it across related servers.  Using the client to do
this has some benefits.

(Also, a note about small session IDs: they can't be so small as to be
guessable.  32-bit session IDs would be a disaster.  I think I'd not
feel comfortable with session IDs smaller than 96-bits.)

Nico
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Received on Monday, 11 February 2013 15:25:02 UTC