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

Adam Barth <ietf@adambarth.com> Tue, 15 February 2011 22:05 UTC

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From: Adam Barth <ietf@adambarth.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 14:05:01 -0800
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To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
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Cc: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com>, http-state@ietf.org
Subject: Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parser rules of draft-ietf-httpstate-cookie-21?
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On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:
> On 15.02.2011 22:11, Adam Barth wrote:
>> ...
>> You really think we should recommend that servers use invalid UTF-8
>> sequences as cookie-values?  That sounds like bad advice...
>> ...
>
> Could you elaborate? Is there client code out there that assumes cookie
> values to *be* UTF-8?

Regardless of what client code exist, surely servers are better off
avoiding non-ASCII characters in their cookie values.  Using non-ASCII
characters in HTTP headers is just asking for trouble.

Adam

Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Remy Lebeau
[http-state] Is this an omission in the parser ru… Remy Lebeau
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Adam Barth
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Adam Barth
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Remy Lebeau
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Adam Barth
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Julian Reschke
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Adam Barth
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Remy Lebeau
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Remy Lebeau
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Remy Lebeau
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Adam Barth
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Roy T. Fielding
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Adam Barth
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Adam Barth
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Remy Lebeau
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Adam Barth
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Remy Lebeau
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Adam Barth
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Remy Lebeau
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Adam Barth
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Peter Saint-Andre
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Adam Barth
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Peter Saint-Andre
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Adam Barth
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Roy T. Fielding
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Adam Barth
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Roy T. Fielding
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Julian Reschke
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Adam Barth
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Julian Reschke
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Adam Barth
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Roy T. Fielding
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Adam Barth
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Adam Barth
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Remy Lebeau
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Dan Winship
Re: [http-state] Is this an omission in the parse… Remy Lebeau
[http-state] parser rules of draft-ietf-httpstate… Roy T. Fielding
Re: [http-state] parser rules of draft-ietf-https… Peter Saint-Andre
Re: [http-state] parser rules of draft-ietf-https… Roy T. Fielding
Re: [http-state] parser rules of draft-ietf-https… Adam Barth
Re: [http-state] parser rules of draft-ietf-https… Peter Saint-Andre
Re: [http-state] parser rules of draft-ietf-https… Roy T. Fielding
Re: [http-state] parser rules of draft-ietf-https… Remy Lebeau
Re: [http-state] parser rules of draft-ietf-https… Adam Barth
Re: [http-state] parser rules of draft-ietf-https… Roy T. Fielding
Re: [http-state] parser rules of draft-ietf-https… Adam Barth
Re: [http-state] parser rules of draft-ietf-https… Dan Winship
Re: [http-state] parser rules of draft-ietf-https… Adam Barth
Re: [http-state] parser rules of draft-ietf-https… Peter Saint-Andre