Re: Session tracking

Paul Burchard (burchard@horizon.math.utah.edu)
Tue, 18 Apr 1995 18:39:52 +0500


dcmartin@library.ucsf.edu (David C. Martin) writes:
> Brian Behlendorf <brian@organic.com> writes:
> > So, I'd like to propose for discussion a new HTTP header
> > (hi Roy!) called "Session-ID". This would be optional,
> > of course, and it would change any time the browser is
> > restarted (or when the user wished).
>
> Now that we have just made HTTP (optionally) stateful, what did
> we break?

Brian's proposal has no effect on server statefulness (else I would
have objected strenuously). And HTTP servers have always been
"optionally stateful". So I'm not sure what you are asking...

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