[LINK] IETF issues BCP memo on cookies

[Roger Clarke]

James Morris <jmorris@intercode.com.au>:
>The IETF has just issued a BCP (best Current Practices) memo relating to
>HTTP cookies and privacy considerations.
ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2964.txt
>or your closest mirror (e.g. http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ietf/rfc/).
[But AARNet's site is only up to  rfc2877.txt of 07-Jul-2000 09:12 ... ]

Note that the work that precipitated 2964 has also, after a long, long
period of delay by IETF, been published as well.

RFC2965 "reflects implementation experience with RFC 2109 and obsoletes it".

ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2965.txt


Network Working Group                                         D. Kristol
Request for Comments: 2965        Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
Obsoletes: 2109                                              L. Montulli
Category: Standards Track                             Epinions.com, Inc.
                                                            October 2000


                    HTTP State Management Mechanism

...

Abstract

   This document specifies a way to create a stateful session with
   Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) requests and responses.  It
   describes three new headers, Cookie, Cookie2, and Set-Cookie2, which
   carry state information between participating origin servers and user
   agents.  The method described here differs from Netscape's Cookie
   proposal [Netscape], but it can interoperate with HTTP/1.0 user
   agents that use Netscape's method.  (See the HISTORICAL section.)

   This document reflects implementation experience with RFC 2109 and
   obsoletes it.



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