Re: Cookies: Integration with external specs.

> On 19 Jan 2016, at 7:52 pm, Mike West <mkwst@google.com> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 1:14 AM, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:
> Hey Mike,
> 
> On 18 Jan 2016, at 8:09 pm, Mike West <mkwst@google.com> wrote:
> >
> > While we have the cookies spec open, I think we should take a closer look at how that specification interacts with others. In particular, two things come to mind:
> >
> > * We should formalize the integration with Fetch (see step 11.1 of https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/#http-network-or-cache-fetch and 9.3 of https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/#http-network-fetch).
> 
> What changes in the RFC would be necessary to do this?
> 
> This would boil down to:
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> * a light refactoring of https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6265#section-5.2 away from "When the user agent receives a Set-Cookie header field in an HTTP response", towards something more like a "Process a `Set-Cookie` header" algorithm that Fetch can pass the header value into explicitly.
> 
> * A thin shim on top of the "cookie string" algorithm that actually sets the header for a Request. This could live in Fetch, I suppose, but seems better positioned in the Cookie spec.
> 
> I can put together a brief I-D spelling out these changes.

Please.



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Received on Wednesday, 20 January 2016 04:26:33 UTC