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Re: [http-state] consensus call: cookie server conformance

"Anne van Kesteren" <annevk@opera.com> Sat, 29 January 2011 10:21 UTC

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On Fri, 28 Jan 2011 23:00:58 +0100, Dan Winship <dan.winship@gmail.com>  
wrote:
> -1, because Section 4 says "cookie-value=token", which is annoying
> (since it prohibits both base64 and URI encoding, both of which are
> commonly used) and unnecessary for interoperability (both existing and
> future clients will DTRT with non-token values) and widely violated by
> real-world servers that would otherwise be considered well-behaved.
>
> I suppose I could probably be happy with
>
>     cookie-value  = token | base64-string
>     base64-string = <a base64 string, defined in [RFC4648], Section 4>
>
> and then change the later Base 16 reference back to Base 64. This still
> declares lots of perfectly-interoperable servers "non-compliant", but it
> at least provides them with a sane way out.

Why would we not want to their usage conforming too?


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