- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2018 08:08:35 +0000
- To: Mike West <mkwst@google.com>
- cc: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
-------- In message <CAKXHy=fgRpDT80UKPu2Sp+m_4SOtPr1phHjkvtVB0-n4qy0y2Q@mail.gmail.com>, Mike West writes: >I agree that folks are using cookies for this kind of work today, and that >they're a very convenient way of outsourcing the responsibility for >maintaining state to the client. It's not clear to me that we should ask >clients to accept that obligation. We should absolutely not, and if for no other reason then because the local cookie-store on client computers is the first thing criminals raid when they get a chance, because it reveals a lot of ways they can exploit the access. -- 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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