Cookies

[Ken Bowen <kb...@als.com>]

Hi All,

There are sites that I frequent which I believe to be powered by java 
servlets,
and which seem to recognize me immediately when I first connect after
an absence ("Welcome back, Ken").  So is it the case that if browser B has
previously set a cookie at site S (at url uuu), then when B returns to uuu
(say after many days but before the cookie for uuu has expired), B sends
the cookies for uuu in the /first/ request?

Thanks,
Ken


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RE: Cookies

["Caldarale, Charles R" <Ch...@unisys.com>]

> From: Ken Bowen [mailto:kbowen@als.com] 
> Subject: Cookies
> 
> So is it the case that if browser B has previously set a 
> cookie at site S (at url uuu), then when B returns to uuu
> (say after many days but before the cookie for uuu has 
> expired), B sends the cookies for uuu in the /first/ request?

That's the whole idea.  To quote from RFC 2965:

3.3.4  Sending Cookies to the Origin Server

   When it sends a request to an origin server, the user agent
   includes a Cookie request header if it has stored cookies
   that are applicable to the request, based on
      * the request-host and request-port;
      * the request-URI;
      * the cookie's age.

 - Chuck


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Re: Cookies

[Christopher Schultz <ch...@christopherschultz.net>]

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Ken,

Ken Bowen wrote:
> So is it the case that if browser B has
> previously set a cookie at site S (at url uuu), then when B returns to uuu
> (say after many days but before the cookie for uuu has expired), B sends
> the cookies for uuu in the /first/ request?

That's the idea: the cookie in this case is sent even with the "first"
request.

- -chris

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