On Thu, 8 May 2008 02:42:05 -0700 (PDT), Laura
<f.marchioni@pride.it> wrote:

>Hi all,
>we have a web application with Apache + Tomcat which makes an
>intensive use of cookies. Since cookies are stored in the HEADER
>there's one page where cookies reach 20KB.

That's bad practice. Session data shpuldn't be in
cookies. The cookie shouldn't contain much more than
session ID.

>We've set packetSize to 40KB both in Tomcat and in Apache and it
>works.
>
>My question is: Apache will send a 40KB Header for all pages ?? or
>only in that page where cookies are used ?

Apache only sends a cookie when the application tells
it to do so.
The browser sends the cookie with every request (!).

>Thanks a lot
>Francesco
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