[http-state] Cookie path and trailing "/"
Zhong Yu <zhong.j.yu@gmail.com> Tue, 02 April 2013 01:01 UTC
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Subject: [http-state] Cookie path and trailing "/"
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Hello cookie masters,
In the follow example of an http response, two cookies are set which
differs in the trailing slash of the Path attribute
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Set-Cookie: n=v1; Path=/abc
Set-Cookie: n=v2; Path=/abc/
According to RFC6265, these are two distinct cookies. And cookie#2 is not
applicable to request-path "/abc".
In my tests, IE and Chrome conform to these requirement. My question is,
are these requirement as intended? What was the reason behind?
On Firefox the two cookies are also treated as distinct cookies; however
Firefox erroneously sends cookie#2 for request-path "/abc". Should that be
considered a bug?
Thanks,
Zhong Yu