Re: [http-state] Support of nameless cookies by user agents

[Adam Barth <[e-mail]>]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:58 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <[e-mail]> wrote:
> Side note: here is the bug where we added support for cookies without an =
> sign, implementing them as valueless rather than nameless, working around
> the lower level library:
>
> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6531
>
> The nature of the workaround means that cookies with no equal sign are only
> supported in script, not on the wire, but if you set one in script it will
> get sent in outgoing Cookie headers.

If you'd like to improve compatibility with IE and Firefox, you might
consider representing these as nameless cookies instead of valueless
cookie.  You can observe the difference via test 0027:

Set-Cookie: foo
Set-Cookie: bar

> We have an internal bug to track adding support at the protocol level.
>
> I was not able to find a bug (either in the bug system or internal) that
> could be readily identified as needing nameless cookies to be treated
> nameless instead of valueless. However, it is possible we have a site
> compatibility bug that is in fact about that issue, but no one has yet
> diagnosed it.
>
> Regards,
> Maciej