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Re: [hybi] "Establish a WebSocket Connection" does not allow for cookies

Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl> Wed, 16 September 2015 08:44 UTC

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Subject: Re: [hybi] "Establish a WebSocket Connection" does not allow for cookies
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On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 10:20 AM, Takeshi Yoshino <tyoshino@google.com> wrote:
> It's not expecting any argument explicitly, but given the history of the
> spec, I think we should just proceed to influence this by e.g.:
>
> Replace the second sentence of the step 9 of
> https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/comms.html#dom-websocket with
>
> When processing the step 12 of the requirements for an opening handshake
> from a client described in the <a
> href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6455#section-4.1">"Client Requirements"
> section of  the WebSocket protocol specification</a>, include a Cookie
> header whose value is the cookie-string computed from the user's cookie
> store and the URL url; for these purposes this is not a "non-HTTP" API.
> [WSP] [COOKIES]

By "given the history of the spec" do you mean that we should not
expect a clean fix to appear anytime soon on the IETF side and instead
just use this monkey patch? I guess that's fine, it just seems far
from ideal, especially given that it was done properly until draft
eleven.


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