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Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> Fri, 09 January 2009 19:03 UTC

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On Fri, 9 Jan 2009, Bil Corry wrote:

> 	http://www.owasp.org/index.php/HTTPOnly#Browsers_Supporting_HTTPOnly

While not being a browser, libcurl is a HTTP library that supports cookies and 
even HTTPOnly ones and it is used in browsers (and browser-like applications) 
at times.

> There are a few ways to get started; I'm thinking that taking an inventory 
> of what is wrong or missing from RFC2109 as compared to the "real world" may 
> be a good place to start.

It sounds like a fair way to get started, but RFC2109 is quite far away from 
how cookies work in real life so the differences are going to be substantial.

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  / daniel.haxx.se
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