Re: status of rfc6265bis?

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Mon, 13 February 2017 16:53 UTC

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On 2017-02-13 17:23, Daniel Veditz wrote:
> Currently all the major browser engines agree and return the quotes as
> part of the cookie, which seems to be what the spec says (DQUOTEs are
> part of the cookie value). Most servers seem to work fine with this
> behavior and no one knows what will break if browsers start handling
> this differently.

That's how I read the spec as well; however, I failed to convince the 
main Apache HttpClient committer. Maybe there's something we can do to 
make it clearer.

> Browsers also allow, and some web applications use, spaces and UTF-8
> sequences in cookies which are technically not valid cookie-octets; we
> should probably make this part of the spec match reality if we can
> figure out what that is.
> ...

Agreed.

Best regards, Julian