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[http-state] non-ASCII cookie values (was Re: Closing Ticket 3: Public Suffixes)

Adam Barth <ietf@adambarth.com> Mon, 01 February 2010 18:14 UTC

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Subject: [http-state] non-ASCII cookie values (was Re: Closing Ticket 3: Public Suffixes)
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On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 2:37 PM, eric bianchetti
<eric_bianchetti@yahoo.com> wrote:
> That part does not please :
>
> The cookie-value is opaque to the user agent and MAY be anything the
>    origin server chooses to send, possibly in a server-selected
>    printable ASCII encoding.
>
> Livng and working in a non ASCII country, I tend to think we shall prepare for the coming of the other languages (Thai, Chines, Korean ....), IF a person get a cookie from a Thai server , can we securely suppose that person(computer) went to a thai site, and that person is using Thai on a daily basis? (Replace Thai by any multi bytes languages).

The part of that sentence after the "possibly" doesn't haven any
normative force (it's just advice that the server can take or leave).
I can remove the reference to ASCII here if you like.  Julian please
correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that HTTP headers typically
contain only ASCII characters.

Adam

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