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

Adam Barth <ietf@adambarth.com> Fri, 04 February 2011 03:23 UTC

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From: Adam Barth <ietf@adambarth.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 19:25:57 -0800
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To: Remy Lebeau <remy@lebeausoftware.org>
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Subject: Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parser rules of draft-ietf-httpstate-cookie-21?
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On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 7:23 PM, Remy Lebeau <remy@lebeausoftware.org> wrote:
> -------- 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: Thu, February 03, 2011 7:12 pm
> To: Remy Lebeau <remy@lebeausoftware.org>
> Cc: http-state@ietf.org
>
>> I should be more clear.  Quotation marks are not special characters in
>> cookie values.  They have no effect on how cookies are processed.  Any
>> use of quotation marks by servers is pure superstition, just like
>> using a leading "." before the value of the Domain attribute.
>
> So the use of quotations around a cookie-value is opaque and the quotes
> will be stored by the user agent and passed back to the server as-is.
> Ok.  Hopefully, I won't run up against any servers that still send
> quoted cookie-av values.

Are you implementing a user agent or a server?  If you're implementing
a user agent, please ignore Section 4 in its entirety and read only
Section 5.  In particular, the text that appears to be confusing you
is contained in Section 4.

Adam

Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Remy Lebeau
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Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Adam Barth
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Adam Barth
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Remy Lebeau
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Adam Barth
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Julian Reschke
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Adam Barth
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Remy Lebeau
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Remy Lebeau
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Remy Lebeau
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Adam Barth
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Roy T. Fielding
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Adam Barth
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Adam Barth
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Remy Lebeau
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Adam Barth
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Remy Lebeau
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Adam Barth
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Remy Lebeau
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Adam Barth
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Peter Saint-Andre
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Adam Barth
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Peter Saint-Andre
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Adam Barth
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Roy T. Fielding
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Adam Barth
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Roy T. Fielding
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Julian Reschke
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Adam Barth
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Julian Reschke
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Adam Barth
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Roy T. Fielding
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Adam Barth
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Adam Barth
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Remy Lebeau
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Dan Winship
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Remy Lebeau
[http-state] parser rules of draft-ietf-httpstate… Roy T. Fielding
Re: [http-state] parser rules of draft-ietf-https… Peter Saint-Andre
Re: [http-state] parser rules of draft-ietf-https… Roy T. Fielding
Re: [http-state] parser rules of draft-ietf-https… Adam Barth
Re: [http-state] parser rules of draft-ietf-https… Peter Saint-Andre
Re: [http-state] parser rules of draft-ietf-https… Roy T. Fielding
Re: [http-state] parser rules of draft-ietf-https… Remy Lebeau
Re: [http-state] parser rules of draft-ietf-https… Adam Barth
Re: [http-state] parser rules of draft-ietf-https… Roy T. Fielding
Re: [http-state] parser rules of draft-ietf-https… Adam Barth
Re: [http-state] parser rules of draft-ietf-https… Dan Winship
Re: [http-state] parser rules of draft-ietf-https… Adam Barth
Re: [http-state] parser rules of draft-ietf-https… Peter Saint-Andre