On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Foteos Macrides wrote: > dmk@research.bell-labs.com (Dave Kristol) wrote: > >Simpler still, a UA that supports new-style cookies should be sending > > Cookie: $Version=0 > >followed by other cookie values. If the server understands new-style > >cookies, it could respond to further requests with Set-Cookie2. > > I just tried sending Cookie: $Version=0; realcookie=realvalue > for: > > Linkname: HTML Form-Testing Home Page > URL: http://www.research.digital.com/nsl/formtest/home.html > > and got back: > Form Test Results for General1 > > Test results: > * NetscapeCookie - Bad HTTP Cookie value: $Version=0; COOKIE=testvalue > [...] What if the client sends the $version= by itself? It is legal to send multiple cookie headers and while folding is possible in theory, I'd guess it doesn't happen much in practice, but could be wrong, and the folding wouldn't be applied to an unknown header field name... DaveReceived on Tuesday, 29 July 1997 09:30:53 EDT
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