Re: [dev] [surf] next release

From: Dieter Plaetinck <dieter_AT_plaetinck.be>
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:27:02 +0200

On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:15:58 +0200
Tadeusz Sośnierz <tadzikes_AT_gmail.com> wrote:

> On 22-10-2009 09:09:25, Charlie Kester wrote:
> > On Thu 22 Oct 2009 at 05:20:44 PDT Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
> > >
> > >what consitutes a "session" ? it's something that is maintained
> > >serverside and the only way to "stay in it" is usually one or more
> > >of:
> > >- keeping and sending cookie data
> > >- keeping the same ip (and maybe user agent)
> > >- requesting the urls they tell you to
> > >
> > >afaik both curl and wget can use existing cookie storages on your
> > >hard disk (and can use the useragent you tell them to), so don't
> > >really see the problem.
> >
> > It seems to me that the problems being discussed in this subthread
> > arise because the "browser" combines two very distinct concerns:
> >
> > - managing the http traffic to and from the website, which includes
> > the administrative details pertaining to the session
> >
> > - rendering the documents obtained from the website
> >
> > Perhaps we should be thinking about separating them?
> >
>
> Then we will end up with some shit like uzbl - the browser which
> cannot browse the web.
>
> Regards
>

it can browse the web just fine, thank you very much.
thanks for the kind words, but let's not go offtopic here.
Received on Thu Oct 22 2009 - 16:27:02 UTC

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