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		jimmy1 on Feb 5, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: HTTP/3 explained Out of all the web storage methods, cookies are still the most reliable and secure to implement sessions. I for one am glad they are not going anywhere.

takeda on Feb 5, 2019 [–]

Cookies are a hack to implement sessions. If http/2 and now http/3 would go for real innovation, we would replace cookies with proper sessions, like PHK suggested: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2012JulSep...

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