On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:15:58 +0200 Tadeusz Sośnierz <tadzi...@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.
