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LYNX-DEV 27bugfixes update
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LYNX-DEV 27bugfixes update |
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Tue, 25 Feb 1997 16:50:23 -0500 (EST) |
An updated 27bugfixes.zip is available in:
http://www.slcc.edu/lynx/fote/
1997-02-25
* More reverse engineering to cope with Netscape's bogus cookie header
parsing. The parser must not require an '=' between the expires
attribute name and value, because Set-Cookie headers are being
transmitted without it (e.g., by http://law.agps.gov.au). So Lynx
now treats that as another special case. - FM
* Cope with invalid use of expires attributes in Version 1 cookies.
An -06 State Management draft recommends that for "backward
compatibility", and has been severely criticized in the HTTP-WG,
but it would be foolish not to assume Netscape will do that. See the
expanded comments in LYSetCookie() of LYCookie.c for more information.
Note that "expires" thus cannot be used as a Version 1 cookie name, but
a provider would be foolish to use that, anyway. Note also that the
possibility of using different header names for Version 1 versus
Version 0 (a.k.a., "Netscape") cookies is being discussed in the
HTTP-WG, which might have been better to do in the first place, but
the -05 draft has been approved as RFC 2109:
http://info.internet.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc/files/rfc2109.txt
so it would be a while before that were done, if ever. - FM
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