Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parser rules of draft-ietf-httpstate-cookie-21?

"Remy Lebeau" <remy@lebeausoftware.org> Sat, 05 February 2011 10:09 UTC

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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parser rules of
draft-ietf-httpstate-cookie-21?
From: Adam Barth <ietf@adambarth.com>
Date: Sat, February 05, 2011 1:49 am
To: Remy Lebeau <remy@lebeausoftware.org>
Cc: http-state@ietf.org

> I haven't gone through your example in detail, but you're correct
> that the " character at the beginning of the Path attribute causes
> the user agent to never return the cookie.

Quotes around the Path attribute MAY allow the cookie to be returned,
depending on which default-path is retreived.  Quotes around the Domain
attribute, on the other hand, WILL NOT allow the cookie to be returned.

> You're welcome to test implementations.

Thanks for the link, that is exactly the kind of test data I have been
looking for lately.  I'll run the examples through my implementation
when I get a chance.