HTTP state management without cookies?

phil hunt philh at comuno.freeserve.co.uk
Fri Feb 22 17:53:57 EST 2002


On Fri, 22 Feb 2002 20:51:00 GMT, Roy Madden <roy at linksheaven.com> wrote:
>On Fri, 22 Feb 2002 14:49:38 +0000, philh at comuno.freeserve.co.uk (phil
>hunt) wrote:
>
>>What do you consider the other 2 methods to be? I can think of 
>>encoding it in the URL, and the server remembering the browser's IP 
>>address. Are there others?
>
>Yeah, the generally accepted methods by which you pass session ids are:
>- cookies
>- url like you say
>- hidden form fields

If the form uses http GET, then these last 2 are the same; http POST 
is different.


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