Bugs item #1210326, was opened at 2005-05-28 11:13
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Category: Python Library
Group: Python 2.4
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: tvogt (tovo)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: comma separated cookie values
Initial Comment:
According to RFC 2109
"For backward compatibility, the separator in the
Cookie header
is semi-colon (;) everywhere. A server should also
accept comma (,)
as the separator between cookie-values for future
compatibility."
The Cookie standard module does not support this as it
should.
>>> import Cookie
>>> c=Cookie.SimpleCookie()
>>> c.load('foo=2, bar=3')
>>> print c['foo'].value
2,
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Comment By: John J Lee (jjlee)
Date: 2005-06-29 20:53
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Forgot to add or demo in that CGI script: even
Set-Cookie: abc=def, ghi=jkl
is just one Netscape cookie, name 'abc', value 'def, ghi=jkl'.
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Comment By: John J Lee (jjlee)
Date: 2005-06-29 20:34
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Unfortunately one can't take the cookie specs at face value.
Netscape cookies behaviour (the de-facto standard, ie. IE &
Firefox behaviour -- cookie_spec.html is barely worth the
web page it's written on, being flat-out wrong in several
major ways, and very under-specified) has, I'm told, always
simply been simply "split on semicolons". Certainly that's
what IE and Mozilla do now:
(this is just the text of a CGI for viewing: I didn't make
it executable on reportlab.org)
http://www.reportlab.org/~jjlee/cookie_demo.py
IIRC RFC 2965 is only implemented by Opera, and is certainly
now quite dead as an internet standard. (though I think it
is useful as a guide for writing cookie-handling code, you
can't follow blindly - not even close :-( )
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Comment By: A.M. Kuchling (akuchling)
Date: 2005-06-02 00:19
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The updated cookie RFC, RFC 2965, also has this language.
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