Re: Cookie question from Anselm Baird_Smith on 1997-01-23 (www-jigsaw@w3.org from January to February 1997)

From: Anselm Baird_Smith <abaird@www43.inria.fr>
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 11:12:41 +0100 (MET)
To: "Orjan Reinholdsen" <orjan@spinne.ip.lu>
Cc: www-jigsaw@www10.w3.org
Message-Id: <199701231012.LAA05349@www43.inria.fr>

Orjan Reinholdsen writes:
 > Hello again!!
 > 
 > I have to correct myself here. My problem with the cookies seem to 
 > have been that I did not know that the cookie name (e.g. SID=1234)
 > was case-insensitive. So what I did was sending out a Set-Cookie 
 > header with a cookie name set to 'SID' and expecting to use the same 
 > name when looking up in subsequent request to find the cookie. NOT
 > SO!!
 > 
 > My recommondation: USE LOWER CASE (since I belive that Jigsaw 
 > transforms all cookie names to lower case)

I'll make sure Jigsaw converts names to lower case, and use
appropriate comparison methods. Thanks !

Anselm.

Received on Thursday, 23 January 1997 05:12:45 UTC