HTTP Cookies: Standards, Privacy, and Politics

ACM Transactions on Internet Technology

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 151-198

  Kristol, David M ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Cookies; Design; Http; Privacy; Security; Standardization; State Management; World Wide Web

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012128179     PISSN: 15335399     EISSN: 15576051     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/502152.502153     Document Type: Article

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