[8699] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Session-Id
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Franks)
Mon Jul 24 11:47:13 1995
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 1995 10:33:23 -0500
From: John Franks <john@math.nwu.edu>
To: www-talk@w3.org
Reply-To: john@math.nwu.edu
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In article <199507241015.MAA06204@wswiop05.win.tue.nl>, Koen Holtman writes:
>
> However, the redirection (3xx) feature in HTTP would allow cooperating
> service providers to obtain (session-id for server a.com,session-id
> for server b.com) pairs where both are known (with 100% accuracy) to
> originate from the same user agent.
Can you explain this? I don't understand how redirection affects
these issues. For example, under the Netscape scheme, if server a.com
issues a redirect to server b.com the client does an entirely new
request to the new server, without any session-id if b.com is not
equal to a.com. Under the Netscape proposal, however, the cookie can
be shared between host a.x.com and b.x.com. It cannot be shared
between a.x.com and *.y.com. (This is according to the spec -- I
don't know how it is currently implemented).
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John Franks Dept of Math. Northwestern University
john@math.nwu.edu
