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

Adam Barth <ietf@adambarth.com> Thu, 24 February 2011 05:16 UTC

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From: Adam Barth <ietf@adambarth.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 21:16:25 -0800
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Subject: Re: [http-state] parser rules of draft-ietf-httpstate-cookie-22
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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.

Adam