Respawn Redux: Undeletable Cookies

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It sounds like the new thing here is using etags. Clearing the cache should defeat this.

The idea with etags is the server says "I'm giving you version XYZWABC of the data" and then if you rerequest it in the future you say "give me it but only if it's newer than XYZWABC". So the server gets to store some data in the cache as metadata.

One solution for new browsers might be to have an option to clear this data without removing everything from the cache.

You can also use the Last-Modified header to exactly the same affect, so anything that clears out etag memory should clear that out, too.

Is it me or does this mean "cookies that can't be undeleted" contrary to the intended "cookies that can't be deleted"?

One should rather say "Non-deletable cookies".

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