another option, if you wanted to avoid bringing in core.async and more involved state management, would be to store your cookie in a global atom, and just reauth it if one of your requests returns an authentication error

and then can automatically retry the request

that's what i'd probably do for simple REPL support

the state management, mechanisms for holding requests while you reauth etc would only be once you had something that needed a little more concurrency and resiliancy

very cool, thank you for the input!