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[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <08260D8D-FADF-40DB-8699-06900D960927 at develooper.com>, =?ISO-8859-1?
Q?Ask_Bj=F8rn_Hansen?= writes:

>It doesn't really answer your question - but it usually makes sense to  
>serve the static content (css/js/images) from a completely different  
>domain.  For example at http://www.yellowbot.com/ we use st.ypbot.net  
>to have a domain that's "cookie free" for static content.    Yahoo  
>uses "l.yimg.com".
>
>You don't want the browsers to "upload" the cookies a gazillion times  
>to a server that doesn't even look at them anyway.   This also gives  
>you more flexibility to have your site served by one set of servers  
>and the static content served by another set of servers.

And just to be totally clear: you need different domains because that's
what cookies select on but you can serve the domains from the same
servers if you want.

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