以購物網站Amazon.com為例

// (a)客戶端:首次請求Amazon.com根頁面
GET / HTTP/1.0
Host: www.amazon.com// (b)服務器:將客戶端重定向到一個電子商務軟件的URL上
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Location: http://www.amazon.com:80/exec/obidos/subst/home/redirect.html// (c)客戶端:對重定向的URL發送一個請求
GET /exec/obidos/subst/home/redirect.html HTTP/1.0
Host: www.amazon.com// (d)服務器:在響應上貼上兩個會話cookie,并將用戶重定向到另一個URL,這樣客戶端就會用這些附加的cookie再次發出請求
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2001 03:20:47 GMT
Set-cookie: session-id=002-1145265-8016838; path=/; domain=.amazon.com;expires=Sunday, 09-Dec-2001 08:00:00 GMT
Set-cookie: session-id-time=1007884800; path=/; domain=.amazon.com;expires=Sunday, 09-Dec-2001 08:00:00 GMT// (e)客戶端發送新的URL(胖URL,將某些狀態嵌入到URL中去了), 同時傳送2個附加的cookie
GET /exec/obidos/subst/home/redirect.html/ 002-1145265-8016838 HTTP/1.0
Host: www.amazon.com
Cookie: session-id=002-1145265-8016838; session-id-time=1007884800// (f)服務器重新定向到home.html頁面,并附加另外兩個cookie
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2001 03:45:40 GMT
Set-Cookie: ubid-main=430-8248051-6231206; path=/; domain.amazon.com;expires=Tuesday, 01-Jan-2036 08:00:01 GMT
Location: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/home/home.html/002-1145265-8016838
Set-cookie: x-main="h0...Bf; path=/; domain=.amazon.com;expires=Tuesday, 01-Jan-2036 08:00:01 GMT// (g)客戶端獲取home.html頁面并將所有四個cookie都發送出去
GET /exec/obidos/subst/home/home.html/002-1145265-8016838 HTTP/1.0
Host: www.amazon.com
Cookie: session-id=002-1145265-8016838; session-id-time=1007884800; ubid-main=430-8248051-6231206; x-main="h0...Bf"// (h)服務器返回頁面內容

參考《HTTP權威指南》P288~P289