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Re: [http-state] Support of nameless cookies by user agents

Dan Witte <dwitte@mozilla.com> Wed, 16 December 2009 18:14 UTC

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Subject: Re: [http-state] Support of nameless cookies by user agents
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> On Dec 15, 2009, at 10:45 PM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> Side note: here is the bug where we added support for cookies without 
> an = sign, implementing them as valueless rather than nameless,  
> working around the lower level library:

Thanks for the link. I was about to ask whether you had something similar and why. I was thinking about removing nameless cookie support in Firefox to see if any of today's sites break; since your report is relatively recent I'm betting a handful would. Having nameless/valueless cookies not work in a major browser might go a long way toward discouraging their use, which could only be a good thing given the disparity of implementation across browsers.

Dan

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