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RFC 2109: HTTP State Management Mechanism

This RFC has been replaced. Do not implement against it for new work — it was formally obsoleted by RFC 2965.

Current document in this lineage: RFC 6265 — HTTP State Management Mechanism

In plain English — editorial summary, not part of the RFC

This document specifies a way to create a stateful session with HTTP requests and responses. It describes two new headers, Cookie and Set- Cookie, which carry state information between participating origin servers and user agents. The method described here differs from Netscape's Cookie proposal, but it can interoperate with HTTP/1.0 user agents that use Netscape's method. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

Document record

Document ID
RFC2109
Published
February 1997
Authors
D. Kristol; L. Montulli
Status
HISTORIC
Stream
IETF
Area
app
Pages
21
Also known as
—
Obsoleted by:
RFC 2965

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Standards lineage

This document is one revision in a chain of 3 RFCs, each formally replacing the one before it.

  1. RFC 2109 (1997)
  2. RFC 2965 (2000)
  3. RFC 6265 (2011) ✓

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