Cookies were introduced as a hack to allow sessions. When HTTP/2 was being proposed phk raised this issue and asked why they didn't use this as an opportunity t

Cookies were introduced as a hack to allow sessions. When HTTP/2 was being proposed phk raised this issue and asked why they didn't use this as an opportunity to make real fixes to http warts like this and eliminate cookies[1]. But given that it was pushed by Google, which didn't mind them, this of course was ignored. [1] https://varnish-cache.org/docs/trunk/phk/http20.html https://varnish-cache.org/docs/trunk/phk/http20.html