- From: Koen Holtman <koen@win.tue.nl>
- Date: Sat, 22 Jul 1995 11:47:10 +0200 (MET DST)
- To: john@math.nwu.edu (John Franks)
- Cc: koen@win.tue.nl, john@math.nwu.edu, www-talk@w3.org
John Franks: >According to Koen Holtman: >> John Franks: >> >3. Server initiated session-ids have strictly greater generality. >> >In particular, if you *really want* a server side data base you >> >can have it using the server supplied cookie as a key. >> >> They have no greater generality at all as far as I know. Could you >> give an example? [...] > There is no way to do any client-side data >bases (like the Netscape implementation of shopping baskets) with >server initiated session-ids. Client-side data bases are an implementation detail, I could just as well say that server generated session-ids are less general because they provide no way to do client side session-id generation. > Similar functionality might be achieved >with a server-side data base, but not as cleanly Exactly the same functionality (to the end user) can be had, but indeed not as cleanly. Putting the generality issue aside, I must say I kind of like the April 18, 1995 proposal by Dave Kristol for server generated session-ids, that was posted in this thread a few messages back. Koen.
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