Re: 103 (Early Hints) vs. response headers

> On 17 Mar 2017, at 12:55 am, Kazuho Oku <kazuhooku@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> While I would not say that RFC 6265 and Early Hints would contradict,
> I still think that the requirement of how a Set-Cookie header _can_ be
> handled is narrowed by Early Hints. Consider the response below.
> 
> HTTP/1.1 103 Early Hints
> Set-Cookie: a=b
> 
> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
> Content-Length: 12
> 
> Hello world
> 
> RFC 6265 allows the client to store cookie `a` by stating that a
> client MAY accept a Set-Cookie header within any 100-level response.

Just a note -- one of the possible outcomes is that we decide that's a bug in 6265. Do we have any data on clients with cookie jars that actually do this?

Cheers,


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Received on Friday, 17 March 2017 00:36:01 UTC