[9367] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: state info in URL (was Re: Proposition on advanced URL features...)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Kristol)
Thu Nov 30 10:44:49 1995
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 95 10:22:42 EST
From: dmk@allegra.att.com (Dave Kristol)
To: troth@compassnet.com
Cc: www-talk@w3.org
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
Rick Troth <troth@compassnet.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Nov 1995, Mirsad Todorovac wrote:
>
> > Existing syntax of the URL allows constructs like this:
> >
> > http://<host>:<port>/<path>#anchor?<searchpath>
>
> Some of us are using the generalization
>
> http://host[:port]/path[;parameters][#anchor][?searchargs]
>
> allowing for state information to be held in the URL.
> I'd very much like to see this included in formal docs.
Embedding state information in a URL disrupts caching. For a proposal
that does similar things but is more cache-friendly, see my State-Info
proposal at
http://www.research.att.com/~dmk/session.html
or draft-kristol-http-state-info-00.txt in the Internet Drafts directory
at your favorite site.
Dave Kristol
