[CLUE-Tech] PHP Sessions and Cookies: Brain Cramp

[David Anselmi]

Keith Hellman wrote:
[...]
> 
> All right, wait a minute - before we start flinging commands into
> web servers, can we first get the protocol straight.
> 
> The correct syntax for GET is:  "GET PATH VERSION\r\n\r\n".  This
> returns headers.  If you use GET like this:  "GET PATH\r\n\r\n", then
> many web servers will simply return the document contents, without any
> HTTP headers, which is where cookies live.  My impression is that this
> is incorrect since the HTTP requires and allows only the GET PATH
> VERSION syntax for a request.

Thanks Keith.  I knew telnet could display headers (in fact sending a 
bad request through squid does).  I also knew we weren't using the 
correct GET syntax but was too lazy to look it up :-(

Dave