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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 03:59 UTC

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From: Adam Barth <ietf@adambarth.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:59:51 -0800
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Subject: Re: [http-state] non-ASCII cookie values (was Re: Closing Ticket 3: Public Suffixes)
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On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com> wrote:
> On Feb 2, 2010, at 5:37 PM, Adam Barth wrote:
>> I've added some basic tests using non-ASCII characters (in this case
>> Chinese): charset0001, charset0002, charset0003.  IE, Firefox, Chrome,
>> and Opera handle these cookies fine.  Safari does something strange
>> that I haven't tracked down yet.
>>
>> There's a long tail of things to test here, including invalid unicode
>> in various encodings, but basic non-ASCII handling appears to do
>> something somewhat sensible.  I haven't tested the document.cookie API
>> at all yet.
>
> Invalid unicode probably will not be an issue if browsers either treat these as raw bytes or treat it as a non-unicode encoding like Latin1.

Yes, but testing makes perfect.  I don't know that much about crazy
unicode cases.  If you have a link to a resource of unicode test
vectors, I can adapt them into cookie tests.

Adam

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