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HTTP tags

HTTP tags are tags that somehow use or manipulate the URL or HTTP headers. Among other things they manipulate;

Prestate options: Prestate options are a way to present options in the URL, that will be persistent for a user over several pages. A prestate for the options txt and en would be stored as http://www.roxen.com/(en,txt)/my.page in the URL. If you use prestate options you must only use relative URLs in your links.
Cookies: Cookies are a way for a web site to store a small amount of information in the users' browsers. It is a much better way than prestates to handle information that should be persistent for a user over several pages.
Authentification: HTTP can be used to transmit a user name and a password through HTTP.
Expire: It is possible to tell the browser, and any proxy on the way to it, how long it is to cache a page.

The HTTP tags are:

Name	Description
<aconf>	Creates a link that can modify the persistent states in the cookie RoxenConfig.
<apre>	Creates a link that can modify prestates.
<auth-required>	Adds an HTTP auth required header and return code (401), that will force the user to supply a login name and password.
<expire-time>	Sets cache expire time for the document.
<header>	Adds a header to the document.
<killframe>	This tag adds some JavaScript that will prevent others from putting the page in a frame.
<redirect>	Redirects the user to another page.
<remove-cookie>	Sets the expire-time of a cookie to a date that has already occured. This forces the browser to remove it.
<return>	Changes the HTTP return code for this page.
<set-cookie>	Sets a cookie that will be stored by the user's browser.
<throttle>	This tag determines a request's allocated bandwidth.