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

Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com> Wed, 03 February 2010 09:53 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 12:46 AM, Adam Barth wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 12:41 AM, Adam Barth <ietf@adambarth.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 12:39 AM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com> wrote:
>>> 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.
>> 
>> Thanks.  I'll add a test for this case.
> 
> I was not able to reproduce this in Snow Leopard using this test case:
> 
> == charset0004 ==
> Set-Cookie: foo="$)A4:=Z;X<RB7$)G!&QN$)ATKMjH+JV2a"
> Cookie: foo="$)A4:=Z;X<RB7$)G!&QN$)ATKMjH+JV2a"
> 
> Can you explain what you mean in the form of a test case?

It looks like the code *should* handle this, but I have not done any testing.

Regards,
Maciej