Re: Session-ID proposal

• From: David Morris <dwm@shell.portal.com>
• Date: Sun, 20 Aug 1995 17:38:17 -0700 (PDT)
• To: http working group <http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
• Cc: www-talk@www10.w3.org
• Message-Id: <Pine.SUN.3.90.950820171945.7271A-100000@jobe.shell.portal.com>

I must have missed something ... if I build an application which needs 
session like control, I have a real hard time believing that I would
find any intermediate caching (as in proxy) acceptable. Providing  a
mechanism where any arbitrary user could retrieve information cached
from a session-id based connection seems like an unnecessary exposure
of semi-private information.

On Mon, 14 Aug 1995, Jim Seidman wrote:

> [...] 
> Given these considerations, and the slowly increasing use of "Expires"
> headers, State-Info could be expensive indeed.

Hence, I would contend State-Info will have little impact since
caching would/should be disabled in most contexts where State-Info
applies.

Dave Morris

Received on Sunday, 20 August 1995 20:39:25 UTC