Cookie.setDomain should throw exception with bad domain arg?

[Tim Funk]

In the javadocs, Cookie.setDomain() says:
The form of the domain name is specified by RFC 2109.
Where RFC 2109 says:
   Domain=domain
      Optional.  The Domain attribute specifies the domain for which the
      cookie is valid.  An explicitly specified domain must always start
      with a dot.
And the code for setDomain() - for tomcat 4,5:
    public void setDomain(String pattern) {
        domain = pattern.toLowerCase(); // IE allegedly needs this
    }
Shouldn't an exception be thrown since the incoming domain is not RFC 
2109 compliant?  But that may break a lot of code. (including mine) I 
discovered this accidently when HttpClient yelled at me when my 
webserver was passing bad domains back.

-Tim

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