At 9:01 PM +0100 3/1/97, Koen Holtman wrote: >[...] >>I've spent some time this afternoon trying to work through the cookie >>spec to change over to a new header (Set-Cookie2). I'd like to remove >>two warts in the syntax for the Cookie header: > >I'd prefer it if you do not make any cosmetic changes to the syntax of >the Cookie header at this point. > >Also, I prefer not to have a Cookie2 header. You can be compatible >with old servers even if you do not have it. You can, but it is much messier, I think. > >I think the following compatibility scheme is optimal. >[cases omitted] The messy part is for a SMG ("new cookie") aware server to distinguish an old from a new cookie, and it must be able to do so, because it doesn't know, a priori, what the user agent is going to do when it (UA) gets both Set-Cookie and Set-Cookie2. Making it possible to distinguish the responses imposes some warts on the server-side processing. If there were a Cookie2 header, it becomes trivially easy to tell them apart, and the specification for Cookie2 can be much cleaner. Dave KristolReceived on Saturday, 1 March 1997 15:03:16 UTC
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