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

"Remy Lebeau" <remy@lebeausoftware.org> Thu, 17 February 2011 19:45 UTC

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(Not sure if this got posted correctly, so re-posting)

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From: "Dan Winship" <dan.winship@gmail.com>
To: "Remy Lebeau" <remy@lebeausoftware.org>
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Subject: Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parser rules 
ofdraft-ietf-httpstate-cookie-21?


> Not that any of this is in any way relevant, but, no it doesn't. RFC
> 2109 doesn't allow the Expires attribute at all. A cookie that contains
> both "Version=1" and "Expires=..." does not conform to *any* spec.

Expires was not in the RFC 2109 grammar for the Set-Cookie header, but most 
implementations did not use Max-Age. The draft allows user agents to support 
both from a server, and RFC 2109 Section 10.1.2 told user agents to 
recognize Expires if present:

10.1.2  Expires and Max-Age

   Netscape's original proposal defined an Expires header that took a date 
value in a fixed-length variant format in place of Max-Age:

   Wdy, DD-Mon-YY HH:MM:SS GMT

   Note that the Expires date format contains embedded spaces, and that 
"old" cookies did not have quotes around values.  Clients that implement to 
this specification should be aware of "old" cookies and Expires.

The wording of that last sentence does not suggest to me, at least, that the 
presence of Expires is strictly dependant on an "old" cookie being used. And 
we can see in real-world cookies that Netscape-style Expires are commonly 
used in RFC-style cookies from servers.