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TIL: Cookies aren't even an accepted RFC, they've technically been a proposal for 11 years, despite universal adoption (datatracker.ietf.org)
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Who'd have thought.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

RFCs aren't standards either FWIW

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I don't think it's that unusual for things to become standards without being officially adopted as such.