[DGD]DGD HTML?

[Michael Bergbauer]

On 16-May-00 Kris Van Hees wrote:
> On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 07:31:53AM +0200, Michael Bergbauer wrote:
>> But how will you handle a second request of the same client? Rely on the
>> data
>> the client sends about his current position? Or even who he is? You _have_
>> to
>> keep information about the connected clients somewhere, and assign some kind
>> of session information to the clients so that they can identify themselves
>> on
>> reload. 
> 
> HTTP is by default a state-less protocol, so any request coming from a client
> is
> completely independent from possible previous requests as far as the HTTP
> server
> is concerned.  That is why sites that require some form of state to be kept
> on
> connection use cookies to store some session ID (that is used on the server
> to
> retrieve the state data associated with that user).

That's what i was saying ;)

Michael

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