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

Adam Barth <ietf@adambarth.com> Wed, 16 December 2009 06:35 UTC

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Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:34:57 -0800
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Subject: [http-state] Support of nameless cookies by user agents
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I'd like to apologize to Roy.  I was mistaken about which user agents
support nameless cookies.  That was one of the first tests I wrote and
I misremembered the results.  Here's the compatibility matrix:

Test 004: Set-Cookie: foo

IE8, Firefox, Chrome: Cookie: foo
Safari, cURL: (no header)
Opera: Cookie: foo=

I've added a TODO to the draft.

Adam