Received: by taz.hyperreal.com (8.6.12/8.6.5) id GAA16156; Thu, 4 Jul 1996 06:56:01 -0700 Received: from gate.ukweb.com by taz.hyperreal.com (8.6.12/8.6.5) with ESMTP id GAA16143; Thu, 4 Jul 1996 06:55:58 -0700 Received: from star(really [192.168.2.10]) by gate.ukweb.com via rsmtp with smtp id for ; Thu, 4 Jul 96 14:55:56 +0100 (BST) (/\##/\ Smail3.1.30.13 #30.13 built 31-aug-95) Date: Thu, 4 Jul 1996 13:45:22 +0100 (BST) From: Mark J Cox To: new-httpd@hyperreal.com Subject: Re: Cookies -> Tracking In-Reply-To: <199607041313.JAA02473@shado.jaguNET.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-new-httpd@apache.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: new-httpd@hyperreal.com Jim Jagielski wrote: > > mod_cookies.c -> mod_usertrack.c > > It's designed to use client-side state tables, better known as > cookies, so it might be more clear to keep the "cookies". Actually the module is designed to track users; it just so happens that it _currently_ uses Cookies to do this. We can't even be certain that they will be called "Cookies" in the future, they are only a proposed standard originally made up by Netscape after all. (Latest IETF draft, "Proposed HTTP State Management Mechanism" ) Mark