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Re: [http-state] non-ASCII cookie values (was Re: Closing Ticket 3: Public Suffixes)

Adam Barth <ietf@adambarth.com> Wed, 03 February 2010 01:37 UTC

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From: Adam Barth <ietf@adambarth.com>
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Subject: Re: [http-state] non-ASCII cookie values (was Re: Closing Ticket 3: Public Suffixes)
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On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com> wrote:
> On Feb 2, 2010, at 4:30 PM, Adam Barth wrote:
>> I'm happy to do whatever you and Ian think is best.  If the algorithm
>> needed for HTML5 is sensible enough to be re-used by other string
>> consumers, that would be a reason to put it in this document.  If the
>> algorithm is non-sensical, we might be doing other applications a
>> service keeping it HTML specific.
>
> I don't actually know what algorithms current UAs use. In fact, I don't even know for sure whether non-ASCII characters in cookies are allowed at all. I guess someone needs to do some testing. I'll ask Ian if he has an opinion on which spec should define this.

I've added some basic tests using non-ASCII characters (in this case
Chinese): charset0001, charset0002, charset0003.  IE, Firefox, Chrome,
and Opera handle these cookies fine.  Safari does something strange
that I haven't tracked down yet.

There's a long tail of things to test here, including invalid unicode
in various encodings, but basic non-ASCII handling appears to do
something somewhat sensible.  I haven't tested the document.cookie API
at all yet.

Adam

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