- From: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 09:45:12 -0700
- To: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
- Cc: Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa <tatsuhiro.t@gmail.com>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>, Roberto Peon <grmocg@gmail.com>
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> wrote: > On 22 October 2013 09:33, Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa <tatsuhiro.t@gmail.com> wrote: >> I think the intermediary in this case cannot restore the reordering of the >> cookie as the browser sent them. > > The order is canonical. > > * Cookies with longer paths are listed before cookies with > shorter paths. > > * Among cookies that have equal-length path fields, cookies with > earlier creation-times are listed before cookies with later > creation-times. > > It's trivially possible to recreate a canonical form. > This needs to be documented quickly in the spec. I suspect that there are many implementers out there who may miss this subtle detail. - James
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