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by MichaelGG 5089 days ago
It doesn't seem like the proposals are "fully" compatible with HTTP. Some of them are entirely different encodings. And I doubt people are thinking of carrying over comments in headers and line folding...

What actually is the proposal to eliminate cookies? Just provide some fixed "identifier" type field?
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comex 5089 days ago
> And I doubt people are thinking of carrying over comments in headers and line folding...

Heh, I don't think any reasonable web apps actually depend on the value of those :)

> What actually is the proposal to eliminate cookies? Just provide some fixed "identifier" type field?

Unfortunately, I don't think there is a concrete proposal to compare to, other than

    Given how almost universal the "session" concept on the Internet we
    should add it to the HTTP/2.0 standard, and make it available for
    HTTP routers to use as a "flow-label" for routing.
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pfraze 5089 days ago
I'd say the cookies situation could be solved by one-page apps. Because the software persists across page-views, it'll be able to maintain session using some other mechanism (localstorage, the lifetime of the tab, whatever). The user could then disable cookies and not be worried about tracking.
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stephenr 5089 days ago
so your "solution" for cookies, is to mandate that all web apps must use ajax, and pass session IDs as part of the URL for all requests?
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