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HTTP State Management Mechanism
draft-ietf-httpbis-rfc6265bis-00

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This is an older version of an Internet-Draft whose latest revision state is "Active".
Expired & archived
Authors Adam Barth , Mike West
Last updated 2017-04-13 (Latest revision 2016-10-10)
RFC stream Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
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Submit RFC6265bis (Cookies)
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Abstract

This document defines the HTTP Cookie and Set-Cookie header fields. These header fields can be used by HTTP servers to store state (called cookies) at HTTP user agents, letting the servers maintain a stateful session over the mostly stateless HTTP protocol. Although cookies have many historical infelicities that degrade their security and privacy, the Cookie and Set-Cookie header fields are widely used on the Internet. This document obsoletes RFC 2965.

Authors

Adam Barth
Mike West

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