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Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> Mon, 15 March 2010 23:30 UTC

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Subject: Re: [http-state] draft-ietf-httpstate-cookie-05 posted
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On Mon, 15 Mar 2010, Paul E. Jones wrote:

> there are only a small handful of browsers that need to handle those 
> cookies.

I'm claiming that statement is wrong.

Cookies are handled client-side by HTTP clients that handle cookies. There are 
far more such client implementations in wide use than "just" the major 
browsers, like for example the library I myself work with: libcurl. But there 
are a large number of other implementations of tools and libraries handling 
cookies that are used out there.

Most probably not at all as many as the server-side apps creating the cookies, 
but certainly not limited to "a small handful of browsers".

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