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Re: [http-state] Ticket 11: Character encoding for non-ASCII cookies values

Dan Witte <dwitte@mozilla.com> Wed, 03 March 2010 00:43 UTC

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Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:43:03 -0800
From: Dan Witte <dwitte@mozilla.com>
To: Adam Barth <ietf@adambarth.com>
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Subject: Re: [http-state] Ticket 11: Character encoding for non-ASCII cookies values
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----- "Adam Barth" <ietf@adambarth.com> wrote:

> == In document.cookie ==
> 
> In
> <http://github.com/abarth/http-state/blob/master/notes/2010-02-03-Julian-Reschke.txt>,
> Julian Reschke wrote:
> [[
> I just did a quick test with an ISO-8859-1 encoded cookie value,
> client-side javascript and "alert(document.cookie)":
> - IE and Firefox appear to treat the cookie as ISO-8859-1

Firefox uses UTF-8, I believe.

A SHOULD level requirement for UTF-8 sounds good to me.

Regards,
Dan

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