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4.7 <tt class="module">Cookie</tt> - HTTP State Management
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The <tt class="module">Cookie</tt> module provides convenient ways for creating,
parsing, sending and receiving HTTP Cookies, as defined in the
specification published by Netscape.
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<div class="note"><b class="label">Note:</b>
Even though there are official IETF RFC's describing HTTP State
Management Mechanism using cookies, the de facto standard supported
by most browsers is the original Netscape specification.
Furthermore, true compliance with IETF standards is actually
incompatible with many popular browsers, even those that claim to be
RFC-compliant. Therefore, this module supports the current common
practice, and is not fully RFC compliant.
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<dt><em class="citetitle"><a href="http://wp.netscape.com/newsref/std/cookie_spec.html"
>Persistent Client State - HTTP Cookies</a></em>
<dd>for the original Netscape specification.
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<dt><a href="http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2109.html"
title="HTTP State Management Mechanism"
>RFC 2109, <em>HTTP State Management Mechanism</em></a>
<dd>for the first RFC on Cookies.
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<dt><a href="http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2964.html"
title="Use of HTTP State Management"
>RFC 2964, <em>Use of HTTP State Management</em></a>
<dd>for guidelines on using Cookies.
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<dt><a href="http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2965.html"
title="HTTP State Management Mechanism"
>RFC 2965, <em>HTTP State Management Mechanism</em></a>
<dd>for the latest IETF standard.
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<dt><em class="citetitle"><a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.SE/0105018"
>HTTP Cookies: Standards, Privacy, and Politics</a></em>
<dd>by David M. Kristol for an
excellent overview
of the issues surrounding standardization of Cookies.
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