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0 points_delirium12y ago0 comments

in short,

   the need for a Session header to replace the use of Cookies
   for basic session management

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cldr12y ago

So is that just cookies by another name?

Cookies with an expire of session and secure flag set: yes. But this should be more secure, and stored for 1 session implicitly.

And in theory less data, right? a session ID doesn't need to store the kilobytes that cookies do.

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0 points_delirium12y ago0 comments

in short,

   the need for a Session header to replace the use of Cookies
   for basic session management

cldr12y ago

So is that just cookies by another name?

Cookies with an expire of session and secure flag set: yes. But this should be more secure, and stored for 1 session implicitly.

And in theory less data, right? a session ID doesn't need to store the kilobytes that cookies do.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse