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

"Remy Lebeau" <remy@lebeausoftware.org> Fri, 04 February 2011 18:10 UTC

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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parser rules of
draft-ietf-httpstate-cookie-21?
From: Adam Barth <ietf@adambarth.com>
Date: Thu, February 03, 2011 7:25 pm
To: Remy Lebeau <remy@lebeausoftware.org>
Cc: http-state@ietf.org

> Are you implementing a user agent or a server?  

Both, actually. I work on an open-source library, Indy
(http://www.indyproject.org), which implements a lot of Internet
protocols, including both http client and server components.

My main concern is that while not common, I have seen RFC 2109 cookies
in the wild before, quoted cookie-av values and all. Since the draft
tries to allow for "maximum interoperability", it should allow for user
agents to parse RFC 2109 formatted cookies from servers.