Michael Gardner created HTTPCLIENT-1700:
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Summary: CookieSpecBase & empty cookie names
Key: HTTPCLIENT-1700
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTTPCLIENT-1700
Project: HttpComponents HttpClient
Issue Type: Bug
Components: HttpCookie
Affects Versions: 4.5.1, 4.5.2
Reporter: Michael Gardner
Priority: Minor
As of HTTPCLIENT-1695, {{RFC6265CookieSpec}} accepts cookies with empty names.
However, {{DefaultCookieSpec}} doesn't always choose this parser when it
encounters such a cookie, and since {{CookieSpecBase}} rejects empty cookie
names, we can end up with the same result unless we specify
{{RFC6265CookieSpec}} explicitly (not ideal if we need to deal with a variety
of sources).
In the interests of robustness, I would argue that {{CookieSpecBase}} should
accept empty cookie names ("be conservative in what you send, liberal in what
you accept").
Alternatively, {{DefaultCookieSpec}} could detect such cookies and parse them
via {{RFC6265CookieSpec}}; but that would be more complex and might lead to
other issues.
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