Re: State | Re: Calls for Adoption -- Cookie-Related Specifications

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In message <E1aBe0k-00010L-VL@maggie.w3.org>, Kari Hurtta writes:

>I notice that this however does not solve cookie problems.

It's really very simple:  Clients shouldn't even know cookies exist.

Clients should send a session-ID to the server.

The session-ID should be marked either anonymous
or persistent.

If it is anonymous, the client is never going to
reuse it after this session ends, so the server
need not bother store anything permanently.

If it is persistent, the client wil reuse the
same session identifier in the future, and
the server can use it as index into server
side state storage facilities.


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Received on Wednesday, 23 December 2015 23:10:46 UTC