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HTTP State Management Mechanism
draft-abarth-cookie-07

Document Type Expired Internet-Draft (individual)
Expired & archived
Author Adam Barth
Last updated 2009-12-30
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Stream Stream state (No stream defined)
Consensus boilerplate Unknown
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IESG IESG state Expired
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Abstract

This document defines the HTTP Cookie and Set-Cookie headers. These headers can be used by HTTP servers to store state on HTTP user agents, letting the servers maintain a stateful session over the mostly stateless HTTP protocol. The cookie protocol has many historical infelicities and should be avoided for new applications of HTTP. NOTE: If you have suggestions for improving the draft, please send email to http-state@ietf.org. Suggestions with test cases are especially appreciated.

Authors

Adam Barth

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