The message below from "TANAKA Tomonari" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was forwarded by one of the list maintainers. >Dear lynx-developers > >I have been developing a network application, TomsoftDiarySystem >(http://www.morito.mgmt.waseda.ac.jp/~tom/TomSoft/TsDiary/). >It outputs the cookies whose path is the same as request-uri, that is, >uri=/bar/diary/ and path=/bar/diary/. >I found that lynx warns "invalid cookie path" for the cookies. > >According to RFC 2965(RFC 2109) and RFC 2964, >I believe these RFCs do not regard the cookies as "invalid" ones. > >I referred to the articles of lynx-dev ML in order to make the reason clear >why lynx regards the cookies as "invalid", and I found the article, >http://www.flora.org/lynx-dev/html/month081999/msg00254.html. > >In this article, it seems that "prefix" does not contain uri itself. >However, I have a different opinion based on RFC 2965. > >RFC 2965 says > > A user agent rejects (SHALL NOT store its information) if the Version > attribute is missing. Moreover, a user agent rejects (SHALL NOT > store its information) if any of the following is true of the > attributes explicitly present in the Set-Cookie2 response header: > > * The value for the Path attribute is not a prefix of the > request-URI. > > and adding to it, > > For two strings that represent paths, P1 and P2, P1 path-matches P2 > if P2 is a prefix of P1 (including the case where P1 and P2 string- > compare equal). Thus, the string /tec/waldo path-matches /tec. > >In my opinion, these sentences should be interpreted that "prefix" can >contain >uri itself, therefore, the cookies mentioned the above should be valid. > >Although obsolete RFC 2109 did not define the meaning of "prefix" clearly, >RFC 2965 clearly mentioned a uri itself can be its prefix. > >I hope that lynx accepts a cookie whose path is the same as its uri >without any warning like "invalid cookie path." > >Scenery, >-- >tom TANAKA Tomonari > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.morito.mgmt.waseda.ac.jp/~tom/ ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
