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Re: [http-state] non-ASCII cookie values (was Re: Closing Ticket 3: Public Suffixes)

Adam Barth <ietf@adambarth.com> Wed, 03 February 2010 08:07 UTC

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From: Adam Barth <ietf@adambarth.com>
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Subject: Re: [http-state] non-ASCII cookie values (was Re: Closing Ticket 3: Public Suffixes)
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On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 12:06 AM, Adam Barth <ietf@adambarth.com> wrote:
> 2010/2/3 Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>:
>> Understood (when I was saying "not specified" I was thinking of historic
>> Cookie specs).
>
> Honestly, the historical cookie specs are so far from the truth that
> it's easier to act as they don't exist.
>
>>> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com> wrote:
>>>> I am curious if the Cookie name, and not just the value, can contain non-ASCII in existing implementations.
>>>
>>> Yes, it can.  charset0002 tests a non-ASCII name and value.
>>> charset0003 tests a non-ASCII name, value, and custom attribute, all
>>> of which acts naturally in IE/Firefox/Chrome/Opera:
> [...]
>> So what does happen with Safari?
>
> I knew someone would ask.  :)
>
> It looks like Safari does not return a Cookie header in those cases.

Those cases being charset0001, charset0002, and charset0003.  One
possible explanation is that Safari rejects cookies that have
non-ASCII characters in their values.

Adam

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