HTTP state management without cookies?

[Michael Ströder]

Geoffrey Talvola wrote:
> 
> Webware's WebKit app server has a different approach that doesn't require
> cookies and also doesn't require adding the session ID to all URL's.  It has
> an option to use "automatic path sessions".  If you turn on this option,
> then WebKit will redirect a request without a session ID like:
> 
> http://foo.bar/cgi-bin/WebKit.cgi/MyServlet
> 
> to:
> 
> http://foo.bar/cgi-bin/WebKit.cgi/_SID_=3678268432/MyServlet

It's just using PATH_INFO for the session ID which *is* part of the
URL.

I think people proposing use of Cookies were concerned about messing
up the bookmarks of the user with session IDs. It's much less of a
problem to produce the correct URLs within your app.

Ciao, Michael.