Re: allowable characters in token as used in parameter ABNF

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Dan Winship <dan.winship@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 02/05/2010 10:59 AM, Julian Reschke wrote:
>>> Don't many headers accept more bytes there? E.g. cookie related headers.
>>
>> Indeed, Cookies (as specced in RFC 2109) use that pattern as well.
>
> RFC 2109 isn't used though. Set-Cookie and Cookie are complete
> disasters, syntax-wise, and are almost certainly treated as
> special-cases even by clients that otherwise use a generic parser.

Yeah, I wouldn't use the Set-Cookie header as a syntactic model for
anything.  :)

Adam