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Re: [http-state] Updated draft

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Mon, 17 August 2009 19:45 UTC

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Cc: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>, http-state <http-state@ietf.org>
Subject: Re: [http-state] Updated draft
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Adam Barth wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Julian Reschke<julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:
>> Why would you have to pick an ordering?
>>
>> In Java, I might just drop then into a HashSet, and never worry about
>> ordering...
> 
> In the end you have to serialize the set of cookies you transmit to
> the server into a sequence of bytes for the Cookie header.  When you
> do this, you have to pick an ordering for that sequence of bytes.  Of
> course, you can pick a different order each time you serialize, but
> that seems inferior to matching the behavior of 99% of the market.

Well, no. I'll just obtain an Iterator from Java, and the order it 
returns the values will be implementation-dependant.

BR, Julian

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