[apps-discuss] Comment on draft-thomson-http-omnomnom-00

Cullen Jennings <fluffy@iii.ca> Sat, 23 July 2016 09:37 UTC

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Subject: [apps-discuss] Comment on draft-thomson-http-omnomnom-00
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So the relevant text of this draft is 

   Cookies that are set using insecure channels (i.e., HTTP over
   cleartext TCP), MUST have a short time limit on the time that they
   are persisted.

Without specifying what a short time is, this seems like a pretty vacuous MUST. Perhaps an exact value could be provided.