On 16 March 2017 14:31:31 GMT+00:00, Jim Griswold <jim.grisw...@gmail.com> 
wrote:
>Thanks, Mark! I filed
>https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60876

Thanks. I don't suppose you'd like to try your hand at a patch?

Mark


>
>
>Jim
>
>On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 6:15 AM, Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote:
>
>> On 15/03/17 21:56, Jim Griswold wrote:
>> > Hi everyone,
>> >
>> > After a recent upgrade from Tomcat 8.0.28 to 8.5.11, I've noticed a
>> syntax
>> > change in the Set-Cookie header generated by Tomcat, and I was
>hoping to
>> > confirm whether this is intentional or if I'm doing something
>> incorrectly.
>> >
>> > The background:
>> >
>> > After upgrading Tomcat, some automated tests started failing. These
>tests
>> > use an Apache CXF client to make requests to a service running
>inside
>> > Tomcat, and then make various assertions on the value of the
>Set-Cookie
>> > header returned from from the service.
>> >
>> > The root cause of the failure appears to be a change in the syntax
>used
>> for
>> > the Set-Cookie header which resulted in parsing failures in the
>client.
>> >
>> > The header that's generated by Tomcat 8.0.28 looks like:
>> >
>> > Set-Cookie: cookie_name=value; Path=/
>> >
>> > With 8.5.11, it looks like:
>> >
>> > Set-Cookie: cookie_name=value;path=/
>> >
>> > Note the missing space after the semicolon and the change from
>"Path" to
>> > "path". After some digging around, I saw that the
>> > new Rfc6265CookieProcessor was changed to be the default cookie
>> processor.
>> > When I followed instructions [1] to change back to the old
>processor, the
>> > original behavior was restored and my tests pass again.
>> >
>> > Is this expected behavior? I see that RFC 6265 specifies [2] that
>there
>> > must be a space between the semicolon and "path", and that it
>should be
>> > "Path" with the first letter uppercased. Taking a look at the
>> > Rfc6265CookieProcessor source code (the generateHeader method,
>> > specifically), the lack of space and lower case p appear to be
>> intentional,
>> > yet don't seem to conform to the RFC the class is targeting.
>> >
>> > I am sure I must be missing something since this is the new default
>and
>> > this is such a common behavior, but I've dug around for a while and
>can't
>> > find another explanation.
>>
>> Those are implementation bugs. Please raise a Bugzilla issue. The
>case
>> issue is probably wider than just path.
>>
>> Reading through the rest of the spec, they both look to be things
>> clients should tolerate so you probably want to look at the client
>code
>> as well.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance for your time and help!
>> >
>> > Jim
>> >
>> > [1]
>> > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/38696081/how-to-
>> change-cookie-processor-to-legacycookieprocessor-in-tomcat-8
>> >
>> > [2] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6265#section-4.1.1
>> >
>>
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