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Adam Barth <ietf@adambarth.com> Thu, 11 March 2010 18:06 UTC

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From: Adam Barth <ietf@adambarth.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:42:51 -0800
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Subject: Re: [http-state] draft-ietf-httpstate-cookie-05 posted
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On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Yngve Nysaeter Pettersen
<yngve@opera.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:23:03 +0100, Adam Barth <ietf@adambarth.com> wrote:
>>> * 4.1 definition of Max-age is missing. It is used in 5.2.1
>>
>> This is intentional.  The folks in the working group didn't think we
>> should recommend Max-Age to server operators because it's not
>> implemented in Internet Explorer.  I'm optimistic that IE will
>> implement it, but that's why it's not there.
>
> I still think it should be there, perhaps with a note that not all clients
> support it (Opera didn't until a couple of years ago), and that servers
> should complement it with an Expires attribute.

Feel free to convince the working group on this point.  I support
describing it in Section 4.  It seems odd to leave out only one of the
attributes.

Adam

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