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Re: [http-state] draft-ietf-httpstate-cookie-05 posted

Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> Mon, 15 March 2010 08:20 UTC

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Subject: Re: [http-state] draft-ietf-httpstate-cookie-05 posted
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On Mon, 15 Mar 2010, Yngve N. Pettersen (Developer Opera Software ASA) wrote:

> * cookie-name should not be allowed to start with "$". I would prefer a MUST 
> NOT, but a SHOULD NOT might be sufficient.

Have anyone tried to check how common such cookie names are? And related: are 
there existing widely used cookie implementations where using a such a name 
cause problems?

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