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Re: [http-state] Summary of discussion of Ticket 5 (Cookie ordering)

Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> Fri, 16 April 2010 10:30 UTC

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On Fri, 16 Apr 2010, Achim Hoffmann wrote:

> web applications which rely on the ordering somehow, are prone to some 
> attacks.

Sorry, but I must've missed that explanation. Where can we read up on the 
details of this claim?

> I'd recommend that the spec does not recommend the cookie ordering.

I strongly agree with this. It just seems that we're a minority and we can't 
get stuck on the sorting issue forever...

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