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Re: Re: Cookies at XML Europe 2004 -- Call for Particip ation

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• Subject: Re: Re: Cookies at XML Europe 2004 -- Call for Particip ation
• From: Mike Champion <mc@x...>
• Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 19:19:41 -0800 (PST)
• In-reply-to: <3FFA1CBF.8070502@c...>

--- "Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@c...> wrote:

> 
> One thing cookies can be good for is when you have a
> dynamic IP address. 
>   The server can't know you by IP then, but it can
> know you by cookie.

How about if you are behind a firewall?  In general,
doesn't the server see the address of the firewall,
not the address of the client?  If so, I would think
that cookies or some other mechanism where the client
holds the identity  are the only viable means to
maintaining sessions to a specific client.

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