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Re:HTTP/3: the past, the present, and the future by takeda on Thursday September 26, 2019 @04:37PM (#21085254)
Session support is what cookies were supposed to solve, a proper support would make things simpler and not allow to abuse cookies for other things.
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Re:HTTP/3: the past, the present, and the future by zeroimpl on Thursday September 26, 2019 @08:03PM (#21087045)
I suppose you'd rather they'd have named the headers "Session-Id" and "Set-Session-Id"?
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Re:HTTP/3: the past, the present, and the future by thecopy on Thursday September 26, 2019 @04:56PM (#21085448)
Could upu clarify what you mean with proper support for sessions?
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Re:HTTP/3: the past, the present, and the future by takeda on Friday September 27, 2019 @12:19PM (#21093582)
I think phk said it[1] best

[1] https://varnish-cache.org/docs/trunk/phk/http20.html#beating...

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Re:HTTP/3: the past, the present, and the future by lone_haxx0r on Thursday September 26, 2019 @10:01PM (#21087731)
And how would you not allow to abuse this session system? Would you make it more 'transactional' than cookies or what?
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