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Posted to dev@httpd.apache.org by "Roy T. Fielding" <fi...@avron.ICS.UCI.EDU> on 1996/04/19 04:14:39 UTC

Re: cookies 'n' cream^H^H^H^Hcaches

> Anyone know how caches deal with cookies?

They don't until HTTP/1.1.

> If a cookie gets set for individual X who uses a proxy cache,
> then will the proxy give the same cookie to user Y who subsequently
> requests the cached URL?

Yes, unless Authorization was used as well or caching has been disableb
by some other means (expire now, no last-mod, etc.).  You should try to
disable caching in HTTP/1.0 if using cookies.

BTW, cookies suck.

.......Roy