How important are cookieless sessions? Should a web application framework provide support for them?

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Published on 2010-03-22T17:30:42Z Indexed on 2010/03/22 17:41 UTC
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We are programming a new web application framework (Second WAF). I was wondering if we should support cookieless sessions or not.

Who use it and who needs it?

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