Re: [http-state] The demise of the Netscape Doc??? (cookie_spec.html)

Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org> Sat, 01 August 2009 15:38 UTC

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From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Bil Corry <bil@corry.biz>
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Subject: Re: [http-state] The demise of the Netscape Doc??? (cookie_spec.html)
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Bil Corry wrote:
> =JeffH wrote on 7/31/2009 4:32 AM: 
> >> Here is the top link from my recent Goole search for:
> >>    Netscape Cookie Spec
> >>
> >> Looks and smells like a netscape site:
> >>    http://cgi.netscape.com/newsref/std/cookie_spec.html
> > 
> > But there's no cookie_spec there.
> > 
> > Rather, it's been voluntarily re-hosted here (and likely elsewhere)..
> > 
> > 
> > http://curl.haxx.se/rfc/cookie_spec.html
> 
> Thanks for tracking this down.

Another URL which is likely to survive a long time, which Wikipedia uses:

http://web.archive.org/web/20070805052634/http://wp.netscape.com/newsref/std/cookie_spec.html

-- Jamie