Tim Spalding wrote:
> At a minimum, I'd like to take the URL of a page and bookmark it or
> send it to a friend. Mostly, I can't do that now. URLs are
> session-based and die when I try to use them.
>
> This is a problem the web solved in the mid-to-late 90s. That
> libraries haven't solved it is, simply, pathetic.
>
>
I don't recall the details, but something in the back of my mind is
telling me that the sessions exist because we didn't want vendors to use
cookies on public access terminals. Does anyone else remember that? I
believe the idea of the session-based URL was to retain the session
without leaving anything on the computer.
kc
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