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Paul Vernon wrote:
> I've missed most of this thread so I'm sorry if I'm off base or I'm
> repeating someone but I thought that the RFC's stated pretty clearly that
> the size of a cookie could be no more than 4K and that there could be no
> more than 20 cookies per domain, therefore giving a total of 80Kb of cookie
> storage are you exceeding 80Kb of cookie storage on the client or are you
> saying that Opera isn't respecting the 4Kb/20 cookies rule?
You've got that a bit backwards. To quote RFC 2965:
5.3 Implementation Limits
Practical user agent implementations have limits on the number and
size of cookies that they can store. In general, user agents' cookie
support should have no fixed limits. They should strive to store as
many frequently-used cookies as possible. Furthermore, general-use
user agents SHOULD provide each of the following minimum capabilities
individually, although not necessarily simultaneously:
* at least 300 cookies
* at least 4096 bytes per cookie (as measured by the characters
that comprise the cookie non-terminal in the syntax description
of the Set-Cookie2 header, and as received in the Set-Cookie2
header)
* at least 20 cookies per unique host or domain name
User agents created for specific purposes or for limited-capacity
devices SHOULD provide at least 20 cookies of 4096 bytes, to ensure
that the user can interact with a session-based origin server.
The information in a Set-Cookie2 response header MUST be retained in
its entirety. If for some reason there is inadequate space to store
the cookie, it MUST be discarded, not truncated.
Applications should use as few and as small cookies as possible, and
they should cope gracefully with the loss of a cookie.
The 4kB/20 cookies rule is a *minimum*. There's no upper limit on how
many cookies can be stored overall or per domain, nor on the size.
K.
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