[REBOL] Re: Passing a cookie back to the server
From: gchiu:compkarori at: 10-Jun-2001 15:44
> thought I had looked at all the most recent additions to
> the http arena. I
> guess your update came soon thereafter. Shame on me for
Actually Dec 2000. After a hiatus of a year, I went back
then to trying to figure out why the mods I made to
cookies-client.r weren't working with one particular site.
> arena. The main (and only) advantage I can think of with
> hacking the http
> scheme itself is that ssl, tls, tunneling, and
> encryption, etc, will be
> transparently supported. Do you think that this would be
> beneficial?
Absolutely. Interestingly my recollection is that when
Rebol was first released, 'read did include all the headers,
but then it was improved and hidden from us.
> (by the way, your code
> is always incredibly easy to read, which is a Good Thing,
Thanks <blush>. I guess it's a reflection of my exposure to
forth <grin>.
> person, but I, too, need them for certain sites, and it
> would be nice if REBOL
> handled them more transparently. I mainly am doing this
I agree, and I don't understand why RT haven't implemented
transparent cookie handling into core yet, unless they don't
consider it a priority.
--
Graham Chiu
