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Re: [http-state] non-ASCII cookie values (was Re: Closing Ticket 3: Public Suffixes)

Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com> Wed, 03 February 2010 08:38 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 Feb 3, 2010, at 12:11 AM, Julian Reschke wrote:

> Adam Barth wrote:
>> ...
>> Those cases being charset0001, charset0002, and charset0003.  One
>> possible explanation is that Safari rejects cookies that have
>> non-ASCII characters in their values.
>> ...
> 
> ...which I think is not really a bug, according to the specs.
> 
> Unless that affects Safari's interoperability, I'd strongly recommend to consider making this the recommended behavior.

I don't have information one way or another on this. I don't see any bugs that are obviously this issue, but it could be the cause of less obvious compatibility bugs. Perhaps the thing to do is a study to determine the frequency with which non-ASCII cookies are sent.

BTW from code inspection, it looks to me like Safari *will* allow non-ASCII characters in the cookie value if it is a quoted string.

Regards,
Maciej

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