HTTP header cookies

cccc · 02-13-2009, 07:12 AM

Hi

There are 2 kinds of HTTP cookies: a normal cookie and a header cookie.

What are differencies?

What happens with the header cookie if the client is browsing over the proxy normally?

acid_kewpie · 02-13-2009, 07:21 AM

A cookie is a cookie. it comes from the server in an http header, it's written to disk by the browser, and then sent to the server on demand as an http header.

******* · 02-13-2009, 07:31 AM

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Originally Posted by cccc

there are 2 kinds of HTTP cookies: a normal cookie and a header cookie?

This could make it a bit more transparent: http://www.cookiecentral.com/faq/#1.1 ?

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Originally Posted by cccc

what happens with the header cookie if the client is browsing over the proxy normally?

The answer is "it depends": http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2109.txt (see "4.2.3 Controlling Caching")?

cccc · 02-13-2009, 07:54 AM

Cookie-Related Headers

There are two headers, Set-Cookie and Cookie, that are related to cookies. The Set-Cookie header is sent by the server in response to an HTTP request, which is used to create a cookie on the user's system. The Cookie header is included by the client application with an HTTP request sent to a server, if there is a cookie that has a matching domain and path.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...21(VS.85).aspx

greetings
cccc

acid_kewpie · 02-13-2009, 09:08 AM

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Originally Posted by cccc

Cookie-Related Headers

There are two headers, Set-Cookie and Cookie, that are related to cookies. The Set-Cookie header is sent by the server in response to an HTTP request, which is used to create a cookie on the user's system. The Cookie header is included by the client application with an HTTP request sent to a server, if there is a cookie that has a matching domain and path.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...21(VS.85).aspx

greetings
cccc

Right, yes that's correct. Are we meant to comment on this?

cccc · 02-13-2009, 11:00 AM

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Originally Posted by acid_kewpie

Right, yes that's correct. Are we meant to comment on this?

yep

acid_kewpie · 02-13-2009, 01:19 PM

you're not making it easy for us are you? What you posted in that link is correct, and agrees with everything we've said. There is no comment to make.

cccc · 02-14-2009, 01:12 PM

I still don't know what happens with the header cookie (request) if the client is browsing over the proxy?
my squid 3.0 PRE5 was setuped with default settings.

acid_kewpie · 02-14-2009, 03:21 PM

well nothing happens.. it just passes through unless your proxy is deliberatley meddling with it, in which case it's whatever your proxy of choice has been told to do with it. Why are you asking this? Is there an actual problem you can let us in on??

cccc · 02-20-2009, 11:39 AM

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Originally Posted by acid_kewpie

well nothing happens.. it just passes through unless your proxy is deliberatley meddling with it, in which case it's whatever your proxy of choice has been told to do with it. Why are you asking this? Is there an actual problem you can let us in on??

yep, there is a problem with dynamic .asp pages.
users browsing over the proxy getting this message:

Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage

we have squid 2.6.STABLE5 installed on Etch.

acid_kewpie · 02-20-2009, 11:42 AM

well why do you associate this with cookies? what is the source that they can't display? is it valid html?

cccc · 02-20-2009, 12:02 PM

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Originally Posted by acid_kewpie

well why do you associate this with cookies? what is the source that they can't display? is it valid html?

It was just a question abot cookies.
The client gets an header ID from the webserver.
There is valid HTML.

acid_kewpie · 02-20-2009, 02:18 PM

Different question = different thread, please start a new thread if this is nothing to do with your original query.

acid_kewpie · 02-20-2009, 02:19 PM

Different question = different thread, please start a new thread if this is nothing to do with your original query.