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> There is no way to do any client-side data
>bases (like the Netscape implementation of shopping baskets) with
>server initiated session-ids.
Client-side data bases are an implementation detail, I could just as
well say that server generated session-ids are less general because
they provide no way to do client side session-id generation.
> Similar functionality might be achieved
>with a server-side data base, but not as cleanly
Exactly the same functionality (to the end user) can be had, but
indeed not as cleanly.
Putting the generality issue aside, I must say I kind of like the
April 18, 1995 proposal by Dave Kristol for server generated
session-ids, that was posted in this thread a few messages back.
Koen.