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 -- =========================================================== () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments
