Re: [http-state] Ticket 5: Cookie ordering

[Maciej Stachowiak <[e-mail]>]

On Jan 19, 2010, at 2:10 PM, Adam Barth wrote:

> Ticket 3 is still open for discussion, but I'd like to get started
> talking the next ticket:
> http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpstate/trac/ticket/5
> 
> == Overview ==
> 
> Currently the draft defines the order in which cookies should appear
> in the Cookie header.  In particular, cookies are ordered first by the
> length of the Path attribute (longest first) and then by creation date
> (earliest first).  The majority of the most widely used user agents
> use this ordering. (I can look up exactly which browsers follow the
> ordering if that's important.)

That would be useful information. For the browsers that don't follow this behavior, I'd also like to know how they differ. It sounds like not specifying the order at all isn't viable, so I'd like to understand the tradeoffs between fully specifying it and partially specifying it in various ways.

Regards,
Maciej