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by vmorgulis 3501 days ago
May be with an ETag:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_ETag

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ETag is for notifying that content has been updated, so how would you use the mechanism to log someone in?
You can exploit the fact that HTTP caching sends the ETag back and forth. A server can set a crafted ETag and basically use it as a session ID. See [1][2]

[1] http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/12679/how-can-i-... [2] https://github.com/lucb1e/cookielesscookies/blob/master/inde...