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I never even contemplated the size of cookies before seeing this. It never occurred to me that it could create such an overhead. It'd be incredibly handy if we could set a header like `x-send-cookies: NO` to stop the browser sending cookies along for static content. Great post, a real eye opener.

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Set a header where (on which request from whom to whom?)

The initial request from browser to server, I presume.

Here as well. I knew of several reasons to serve static content from a different domain/cdn, but never thought of this cookie-benefit.

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