[http-state] RFC 6265 on HTTP State Management Mechanism

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        RFC 6265

        Title:      HTTP State Management Mechanism 
        Author:     A. Barth
        Status:     Standards Track
        Stream:     IETF
        Date:       April 2011
        Mailbox:    abarth@eecs.berkeley.edu
        Pages:      37
        Characters: 79724
        Obsoletes:  RFC2965

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-httpstate-cookie-23.txt

        URL:        http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6265.txt

This document defines the HTTP Cookie and Set-Cookie header fields.
These header fields can be used by HTTP servers to store state
(called cookies) at HTTP user agents, letting the servers maintain a
stateful session over the mostly stateless HTTP protocol.  Although
cookies have many historical infelicities that degrade their security
and privacy, the Cookie and Set-Cookie header fields are widely used
on the Internet.  This document obsoletes RFC 2965.  [STANDARDS-TRACK]

This document is a product of the HTTP State Management Mechanism Working Group of the IETF.

This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.

STANDARDS TRACK: This document specifies an Internet standards track
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