Re: [http-state] RFC 6265 on HTTP State Management Mechanism

Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> Thu, 28 April 2011 04:32 UTC

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Subject: Re: [http-state] RFC 6265 on HTTP State Management Mechanism
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Congratulations to Adam and to the WG on completing this work!

On 4/27/11 7:34 PM, rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org wrote:
> 
> A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries.
> 
>         
>         RFC 6265
> 
>         Title:      HTTP State Management Mechanism 
>         Author:     A. Barth
>         Status:     Standards Track
>         Stream:     IETF
>         Date:       April 2011
>         Mailbox:    abarth@eecs.berkeley.edu
>         Pages:      37
>         Characters: 79724
>         Obsoletes:  RFC2965
> 
>         I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-httpstate-cookie-23.txt
> 
>         URL:        http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6265.txt
> 
> This document defines the HTTP Cookie and Set-Cookie header fields.
> These header fields can be used by HTTP servers to store state
> (called cookies) at HTTP user agents, letting the servers maintain a
> stateful session over the mostly stateless HTTP protocol.  Although
> cookies have many historical infelicities that degrade their security
> and privacy, the Cookie and Set-Cookie header fields are widely used
> on the Internet.  This document obsoletes RFC 2965.  [STANDARDS-TRACK]
> 
> This document is a product of the HTTP State Management Mechanism Working Group of the IETF.
> 
> This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.
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