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Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> Wed, 03 February 2010 07:42 UTC

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Subject: Re: [http-state] non-ASCII cookie values (was Re: Closing Ticket 3: Public Suffixes)
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On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Dan Winship wrote:

> (And likewise, the spec could recommend that web site frameworks/libraries 
> SHOULD provide similar idiot-proof high-level cookie APIs, rather than 
> expecting authors to generate valid Set-Cookie headers by themselves.)

Don't we pretty much assume and wish for this for every spec and protocol? I 
mean, we make a smaller set of libraries and frameworks for everything that 
then a large amount of users can use.

It is really the job of this spec to spell it out?

(I'm not really against the idea, I'm just curious.)

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