Re:Webvan
by useful on Monday July 22, 2019 @04:44PM
(#20502166)
cookies are sent with every request, you were lucky to have >28k modem back then. Json didn't really exist, xml was king.
There were plenty of reasons. Apache needed a mod to store a session in a cookie instead of a url and HTTPS was really hard to do. Java had its way, PHP had another, ASP had another... everything was different and there were no patterns.
There were plenty of reasons. Apache needed a mod to store a session in a cookie instead of a url and HTTPS was really hard to do. Java had its way, PHP had another, ASP had another... everything was different and there were no patterns.