FTP - you know I'm doing random searches to see what I can find.
http://www.htdig.org/mail/2000/03/03...sion+ids&hl=en
Here they mention Apache servers automatically attaching the session id to the url if htdig doesn't accept cookies - depending on when Apache started doing that & if it kept track of who/what or if it used a CGI script - would that not prove that it was not a miraculous discovery?
*posts are from year 2000 but perhaps Apache was before that*