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Re: [http-state] parser rules of draft-ietf-httpstate-cookie-22

Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> Thu, 24 February 2011 21:00 UTC

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Subject: Re: [http-state] parser rules of draft-ietf-httpstate-cookie-22
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On 2/23/11 10:16 PM, Adam Barth wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Roy T. Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com> wrote:
>> On Feb 23, 2011, at 2:57 PM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
>>> On 2/23/11 3:07 PM, Roy T. Fielding wrote:
>>>
>>> <snip/>
>>>
>>>> Therefore, I would like you to change the ABNF so that it
>>>> reflects the reality of (Set-)Cookie usage on the Internet,
>>>> for the same reason that you have insisted the algorithm
>>>> for user agent parsing reflects reality.  Changing the ABNF
>>>> to include base64 does not do that -- it is just another
>>>> fantasy production that differs from all prior specs of
>>>> the cookie algorithm.  Changing it to
>>>>
>>>> cookie-value      = %x21-2B / %x2D-3A / %x3C-7E / %x80-FF
>>>>
>>>> or just the minimum
>>>>
>>>> cookie-value      = %x21-2B / %x2D-3A / %x3C-7E
>>>
>>> Hi Roy,
>>>
>>> The latter seems fine, and in conversation with Adam he indicated to me
>>> that he would not object to such a change.
>>
>> Okay by me.
> 
> One nit: I would exclude %x22 because there are interoperability
> problems with cookie-values that contain %x22.

So:

cookie-value    = %x21 / %x23-2B / %x2D-3A / %x3C-7E

If there are no objections, I'll add an RFC Editor note to that effect.

Peter

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