RFC 2965 · HISTORIC · 2000
SUN · 14 JUN 2026
HTTP State Management Mechanism
Overview
RFC 2965, “HTTP State Management Mechanism”, is a Historic document published in October 2000 by D. Kristol, L. Montulli. It obsoletes RFC 2109. It has been obsoleted by RFC 6265 — refer to the newer document for the authoritative version. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
This document specifies a way to create a stateful session with Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) requests and responses. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
What “Historic” means
A specification that has been superseded or is otherwise no longer recommended for use.
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Relationships to other RFCs
Other RFCs from 2000
- RFC 2964 Use of HTTP State Management
- RFC 2966 Domain-wide Prefix Distribution with Two-Level IS-IS
- RFC 2963 A Rate Adaptive Shaper for Differentiated Services
- RFC 2967 TISDAG - Technical Infrastructure for Swedish Directory Access Gateways
- RFC 2962 An SNMP Application Level Gateway for Payload Address Translation
- RFC 2968 Mesh of Multiple DAG servers - Results from TISDAG
- RFC 2969 Wide Area Directory Deployment - Experiences from TISDAG
- RFC 2960 Stream Control Transmission Protocol