Re: [http-state] non-ASCII cookie values (was Re: Closing Ticket 3: Public Suffixes)

Adam Barth <ietf@adambarth.com> Wed, 03 February 2010 10:01 UTC

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From: Adam Barth <ietf@adambarth.com>
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Subject: Re: [http-state] non-ASCII cookie values (was Re: Closing Ticket 3: Public Suffixes)
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2010/2/3 Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>:
> On Feb 3, 2010, at 12:46 AM, Adam Barth wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 12:41 AM, Adam Barth <ietf@adambarth.com> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 12:39 AM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com> wrote:
>>>> BTW from code inspection, it looks to me like Safari *will* allow non-ASCII characters in the cookie value if it is a quoted string.
>>>
>>> Thanks.  I'll add a test for this case.
>>
>> I was not able to reproduce this in Snow Leopard using this test case:
>>
>> == charset0004 ==
>> Set-Cookie: foo="春节回家路・春运完全手册"
>> Cookie: foo="春节回家路・春运完全手册"
>>
>> Can you explain what you mean in the form of a test case?
>
> It looks like the code *should* handle this, but I have not done any testing.

It's entirely possible I've screwed up something on my end.

Adam