Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by ComradePhil 1604 days ago
We could have built everything we have without cookies. Start a session and pass the session id back to all the links for that user and go fom there. So, instead of the Cookie header, you'd have the same information in the GET/POST parameters.
1 comments

Wouldn't the average user lose their session when closing the browser or navigating away in that case?