Re: 3 Proposals: session ID, business-card auth, customer auth

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Mon, 24 Jul 95 13:03:11 PDT

In article <[email protected]>, Koen Holtman writes:
>
> However, the redirection (3xx) feature in HTTP would allow cooperating
> service providers to obtain (session-id for server a.com,session-id
> for server b.com) pairs where both are known (with 100% accuracy) to
> originate from the same user agent.

Can you explain this? I don't understand how redirection affects
these issues. For example, under the Netscape scheme, if server a.com
issues a redirect to server b.com the client does an entirely new
request to the new server, without any session-id if b.com is not
equal to a.com. Under the Netscape proposal, however, the cookie can
be shared between host a.x.com and b.x.com. It cannot be shared
between a.x.com and *.y.com. (This is according to the spec -- I
don't know how it is currently implemented).

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John Franks 	Dept of Math. Northwestern University
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