On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, JUANMARCOSMOREN wrote: [...] > > >Aleksandr Guidrevitch wrote: > > >>We've found that LWP incorrectly handles cookies > > >>containing ';' in the cookie value. > > >>The patch (test case and fix) is attached [...] > So, why do you want ';' in cookies if they are not handled > correctly by the most used HTTP implementations (MSIE and Mozilla)?
Right. > > According RFC in **quoted** string you can put almost anything. > > See http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/cgi-bin/rfc/rfc2109.html for > > definition of cookie: > > People don't care much about the HTTP RFC what people really want is to > be compatible with MSIE and Mozilla. [...] The algorithm in browsers has apparently always been pretty much 'split on ';'', so right again. John
