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Re: Cookies with blank expiry date

From: Dima Barsky <dima_at_debian.org>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:45:55 +0100

On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Daniel Stenberg wrote:

> Based on feedback I got on the http-state mailing list from a Firefox
> developer on this topic, we should probably consider making _all_ failures
> to parse the expire date as a reason to switch it to a session cookie and
> not just on blank dates, as that seems to be what Firefox does. (Still to
> be found out how others deal with such cookies)

Sounds like a sensible idea to me. Do you need any help with that? I could
run a few tests to find out how different browsers handle bad dates in
cookies. If we agree to treat these failures as session cookies, the
actual patch would be trivial.

Regards,
Dima.
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