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

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Tue, 15 February 2011 20:44 UTC

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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 15.02.2011 21:29, Roy T. Fielding wrote:
> ...
> Why are you arguing against this?  You are adamant about
> supporting the above syntax in browsers, for the same reasons,
> and there is no harm in supporting the complete Netscape syntax
> in the server grammar.
> ...

Indeed.

If this spec wants to describe cookies-as-used, there's little reason to 
disallow certain cookies when they do interop today, and are not harmful 
with respect to security.

Best regards, Julian