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On this day, 15 years ago the http-state working group was created in #IETF. daniel.haxx.se/blog/2009/01/09…

27 months later the cookie RFC 6265 was published: daniel.haxx.se/blog/2011/04/28…

This spec is now being revised. The latest draft is called -13 and lives here: datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/…


Cookies: HTTP State Management Mechanism

This document defines the HTTP Cookie and Set-Cookie header fields. These header fields can be used by HTTP servers to store state (called cookies) at HTTP user agents, letting the servers maintain a stateful session over the mostly stateless HTTP pr…
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Man2Dev
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well it took 15 years but atleast some one is trying to fix the mess that is cookies
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@Man2Dev "trying" being the operative word! =) github.com/httpwg/http-extensi…

internal whitespace in cookie names and values · Issue #2262 · httpwg/http-extensions

When it comes to the client side parsing of cookies, both RFC 6265 as well as 6265bis-10 state: the algorithm strips leading and trailing whitespace from the cookie name and value (but maintains in...
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whats the point of a spec if no one going to follow it. Seems to me that all these companies do whatever works for them and just refuse to work on the specs so that it worked for everyone
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I like the phrase "historical infelicities" used in the draft's abstract to describe cookies' long, checkered past.
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