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how session support is different from cookie?

Session support is what cookies were supposed to solve, a proper support would make things simpler and not allow to abuse cookies for other things.

Could upu clarify what you mean with proper support for sessions?

I think phk said it[1] best

[1] https://varnish-cache.org/docs/trunk/phk/http20.html#beating...

I suppose you'd rather they'd have named the headers "Session-Id" and "Set-Session-Id"?

And how would you not allow to abuse this session system? Would you make it more 'transactional' than cookies or what?

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