My first thought was a pun on HTTP cookies but James has done it far better
than I could have.
Well done, great laugh!
Andrew McPhee
At 10:37 AM 15/12/2004 +0000, you wrote:
> >
> > gotta be some darn thin cookies, seeing as my powerbook has a slot-in
> > cd-drive only :(
> >
> > Better hurry and come up with CTP (cookie transport protocol) before
>
>sorry I can't resist since I teach about cookies.....
>
>there is no need to write a CTP!!! HTTP already has that caperbility:
>
>EXTRACT FROM MY MODULE ON WEB BASED PROGRAMMING:
>cookies are transported between clients and web servers via the HTTP (High
>Tea Transport Protocol)
>Although HTTP is designed to transfer biscuits, cookies can be
>transported. But there is a limit to the number of chocolate chips than
>can be transferred to only 4K in a single cookie. But HTTP allows you to
>transfer more than one cookie per client! The upper limit on the number of
>cookies per client is web server and web broswer dependant although the
>HTTP protocol does specifiy minimum amounts! It is possible to specify an
>expiry time for a cookie which is approximately the number of seconds it
>is fresh after it is created. After it has expired it is the
>responsibility of the HTTP protocol, client and sever to make sure the now
>stale cookie is destroyed to avoid the client or server becoming ill.
>comparing this to sessions we note that
>Sessions can contain large and various types of objects including coffee
>and cakes etc but you are limited to a single session per client....
>Unlike cookies sessions do not have an expiry date but a bordom counter.
>Each time tea or other substances! :-) are exchanged between the client
>and server the counter is reset. Each second there is no exchange the
>counter counts down. If the counter reaches zero the session is
>considerred to boring and is destroyed along with any objects tea, cakes
>etc in the session...
>
>Sorry
>James
>
>
>Regards
>James
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