Ah yes - Cookie2 FTW! On Wed, Feb 19, 2025 at 1:46 PM Daniel Veditz <dveditz@mozilla.com> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 19, 2025 at 1:10 PM Johann Hofmann <johannhof@google.com> > wrote: > > I agree that some conversation should be had about the overall approach > > of piling on __Prefixes and whether there's some better alternative > > The pitfalls of not returning cookie attributes was already recognized > as a problem that RFC 2109 tried to solve in 1997 (and later RFC > 2965). I assume backwards compatibility and randomly broken sites > discouraged adoption (the death match between Netscape Navigator and > MS IE couldn't have helped--cookies weren't a competitive feature). > Prefixes are transparent to all the old client and server software so > they can safely be adopted by a web application at their own pace. But > they are a hack and can't be easily extended to cover arbitrary > attributes. > -- Rory Hewitt https://www.linkedin.com/in/roryhewitt
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