Thanks for the explanation. We're updating Radiant CMS to Rails 2.0 and,
because the framework is already frozen in the project, I have simply
updated its javascript to do encoding of values.

Still, maybe the revert should be backported to stable. I can't estimate how
many people out there are writing comma-delimited values via javascripts,
but whoever did it's broken if they update to Rails 2.0.2.


2008/2/2 Jeremy Kemper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> On 2/1/08, Mislav Marohnić <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Bitsweat, in his Ruby 1.9 compat frenzy (awesome work, BTW), made this
> > change to CGI::Cookie:
> > http://dev.rubyonrails.org/changeset/8405
> >
> > A comma has been added to raw_cookie.split delimiter. Why? Cookies not
> set
> > from Rails with values like "foo,bar" won't work anymore, only "foo"
> will be
> > preserved. Are we supposed to encode the comma in cookies when saving
> them
> > in JavaScript from now on?
> >
> > In other words (in JavaScript):
> >
> >   document.cookie = "expanded_rows=3,5,7; path=/admin";
> >
> > this cookie won't get properly parsed server-side (only "3" will be
> > preserved). Now we have to:
> >
> >   document.cookie = "expanded_rows=" + encodeURIComponent("3,5,7") + ";
> > path=/admin";
> >
> > I noticed this broke in Radiant (and took an hour to track down), so I
> > wondered why is this Ruby 1.9 compat. Thanks
>
> It isn't for compatibility: we forked Ruby's cookie parsing years ago
> and I imported the intervening changes.
>
> According to RFC 2109, commas aren't allowed in the cookie value and
> should be encoded. Nor may they contain ()<>@;:\"/[]?={} or space or
> tab.
>
> However, splitting on comma is just a 'should' so I'll revert.
>
> Best,
> jeremy
>
> >
>

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