Re: [http-state] http-state charter

Prasad Shenoy <prasad.shenoy@gmail.com> Thu, 30 July 2009 13:17 UTC

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Subject: Re: [http-state] http-state charter
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That's a very good point. Also, would things like CORS have any affect
on how we look (or ignore) HTTP State Management in it's current form.
Is someone out there already thinking about having a CORS cookie?

Thanks & Regards,
Prasad N. Shenoy



On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Ian Hickson<ian@hixie.ch> wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Jul 2009, Bil Corry wrote:
>>
>> Much delayed, but I'm now working on creating our charter.  I've
>> included a first draft below; it borrows heavily from the httpbis
>> charter.  Feedback welcomed.
>
> Looks good.
>
> I would encourage us to also include adding new features that have a
> critical mass of support to the scope of the group's work. It should of
> course be very difficult, process-wise, to add something, but we shouldn't
> require new features to wait for an entire cycle of the cookie spec, if
> something does come up that is widely accepted as being useful.
>
> (We wouldn't want to finish writing this spec only to find that while we
> were at it, the browser vendors got together and added a new feature like
> httpOnly without it getting into the spec.)
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