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

"Remy Lebeau" <remy@lebeausoftware.org> Thu, 03 February 2011 02:01 UTC

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RFC 2109 allows cookie and attribute values to be wrapped in quotation
marks, but ietf-httpstate-cookie-21's definitions of "cookie-value" and
"cookie-av" do not seem to allow for that.  Or am I missing something? 
The examples in RFC 2109 fail to parse properly if the draft definitions
are strictly used (for instance, processing a "Path" attribute can fail
because the first character may be <"> instead of "/" unless <'>
characters are stripped off during parsing).

Also in the draft, "cookie-value" is defined as:

  cookie-value      = token / ""

Is the <""> portion a typo, or was it meant to be more like this
instead?

  cookie-value      = token / <"> token <">