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Re: Question about HTTP cookies
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Date: 
Mon, 10 Apr 2000 19:17:23 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
[...]
How does Netscape know which cookies to send, and which to keep?

RTFM (Read The Persistent Client State HTTP Cookies Spec! :)

   http://home.netscape.com/newsref/std/cookie_spec.html

Basically, it looks at the 'path' field of the cookie.

--Todd



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  Question about HTTP cookies
 
Hey all, When looking in my cookie jar, I see 4 cookies for LUGNET: NEWSPOST=x, NEWSMAIL=x, NEWSGROUPFILTER=x, /=x However, when I trace an HTTP GET, the only cookies transmitted in the query are NEWSGROUPFILTER and / . e.g.: GET (URL) HTTP/1.0 (...) (24 years ago, 10-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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