Isn't that placing a little too much trust in the client?

On 5/14/07, Tom Chiverton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Friday 11 May 2007, Dave Watts wrote:
> > > > How do you maintain client state for AOL or TOR or
> > > > multi-proxy users in a cluster?
> > >
> > > If each client has a unique token, that's good enough, right
> > > ? As long as the server can turn tokens into users.
> >
> > Having a token is not the same thing as managing state. The server is
> > managing state in your example. For the client to manage state, it would
> > have to store more than a token.
>
> Sorry, I wasn't clear.
> Yes, of course the client needs to store more than a token after all it has to
> store whatever state you want to hold.
> The server is not managing (client) state, only a list of valid tokens.

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