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http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2965.txt

RFC 2965, "HTTP State Management Mechanism" (obsoletes RFC 2109).

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2964.txt

RFC 2964, "Use of HTTP State Management."

http://home.netscape.com/newsref/std/cookie_spec.html

This classic Netscape document, "Persistent Client State: HTTP Cookies," describes the original form of HTTP cookies that are still in common use today.

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)