Re: [http-state] Ticket 6: host-only cookies

[Daniel Stenberg <[e-mail]>]

On Fri, 22 Jan 2010, Adam Barth wrote:

> 1) Specify host-only cookies to match Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera. 
> This is best for security, and I think there's a good chance that IE will 
> adopt host-only cookies in future, but I don't have any citable evidence for 
> this belief.  (The draft currently matches this proposal.)

Even though this would be the best security option (and in general I think it 
makes more sense), I don't think we can neglect that one rather widely used 
implementation doesn't do it this way.

Sites out there that depend on this bug/feature in IE will break. And we know 
there exist many IE-crafted sites out there (although I guess nobody really 
knows how many of those that might depend on this particular thing).

I'm guessing this is a difference that simply will remain for a good while 
forward. The non-IE browsers won't do it this way due to security and IE does 
it this way by tradition and the good old "we won't change any behaviors since 
then something will break for our users".

So, I'm afraid I'm leaning towards (3): Allow both behaviors.

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