Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parser rules of draft-ietf-httpstate-cookie-21?

"Remy Lebeau" <remy@lebeausoftware.org> Fri, 04 February 2011 18:44 UTC

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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parser rules of
draft-ietf-httpstate-cookie-21?
From: Adam Barth <ietf@adambarth.com>
Date: Fri, February 04, 2011 10:19 am
To: Remy Lebeau <remy@lebeausoftware.org>
Cc: http-state@ietf.org

> The draft gives user agents precise 
> instructions for how to parse all
> manner of cookies, including cookies with
> values that contain quote characters.  That 
> information is contained in Section 5

I have re-read Section 5 and I do not see its grammar or parsing rules
accounting for quoted-string values at all. It only says to remove WSP
characters surrounding extracted names and values, and quote characters
are not part of the WSP definition. So what am I missing? Where exactly
does it say how to unquote a quoted-string used in attribute values?