Re: HTTP router point-of-view concerns

In message <20130713173222.GM32054@1wt.eu>, Willy Tarreau writes:
>On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 09:49:42AM -0700, Sam Pullara wrote:

>I'm sorry, but cookies are *not* evil. 

Cookies are not evil, but they cause problems which HTTP/2.0 does not
need to cause.

"Automatic EU Cookie directive compliance" would be a really great
selling point.

>We could possibly support very short cookies (eg: 16 bit). That should be
>enough for most large deployments, and clearly not enough to track users.

I think it is smarter to both solve the cookie and session problems with
a single field.

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Received on Saturday, 13 July 2013 18:43:46 UTC