Re: [http-state] [httpstate] #11: Consider defining how to map a cookie-string into unicode

"Anne van Kesteren" <annevk@opera.com> Fri, 12 March 2010 07:31 UTC

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On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:19:29 +0100, Adam Barth <ietf@adambarth.com> wrote:
> As discussed earlier, some browsers apparently use UTF-8 for
> document.cookie and others use ISO-8859-1:
>
> http://github.com/abarth/http-state/blob/master/notes/2010-02-03-Julian-Reschke.txt

For XMLHttpRequest only Chrome uses UTF-8 currently. It seems everyone  
should just align with Fx/IE which makes the UTF-8 advice somewhat wrong  
in my opinion.


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