Re: session-id redux

Darren New ([email protected])
Wed, 26 Jul 1995 12:04:56 +0100


> If your application requires a "stateful dialog" between client and
> server, clearly there are interactions with caching: the if a request
> for resource R is made first with dialog identifier X and subsequently
> with dialog identifier Y, a proxy must not satisfy the second request
> with a cached response from the first request.

Personally, I don't see the problem with making such an identifier part
of the URL. I do it all the time (via http://..../blah?state=XXX) and it
works just fine. No problems with caches, etc. It turns out to be a real
pain and break lots of browsers if you have a URL that points to
different documents at different (closely spaced) times.

--Darren