Re: [http-state] http-state Digest, Vol 1, Issue 1

Bil Corry <bil@corry.biz> Fri, 09 January 2009 20:32 UTC

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Micah Tapman wrote on 1/9/2009 2:15 PM: 
> Speaking to the "browser" idea, and expanding on the libcurl comment from
> Daniel, I think we should consider changing the terminology to something
> like "client object" instead of "browser".

RFC 2109 uses the term "user agents" which I believe is the generally accepted term -- I used the term "browsers" because that was the initial focus of the HTTPOnly efforts.

But yes, for the Internet Draft and the RFC, we'll use the term "user agent," which is what we used for our original HTTPOnly scoping document:

	https://docs.google.com/View?docid=dxxqgkd_0cvcqhsdw


- Bil

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