Re: [xml-dev] Re: Cookies at XML Europe 2004 -- Call for Particip ation

[Mike Champion <mc@xegesis.org>]

--- "Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@comcast.net> wrote:

> 
> One thing cookies can be good for is when you have a
> dynamic IP address. 
>   The server can't know you by IP then, but it can
> know you by cookie.

How about if you are behind a firewall?  In general,
doesn't the server see the address of the firewall,
not the address of the client?  If so, I would think
that cookies or some other mechanism where the client
holds the identity  are the only viable means to
maintaining sessions to a specific client.