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Re: cookie sort order

From: Michael Wood <esiotrot_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:05:38 +0200

2009/8/17 Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>:
[...]
> Can anyone figure out a site or server-side implementation that in any way
> breaks or is dependent on a particular order of the sent cookies? In my own
> experience, libcurl's cookie handling is very compliant with the world's
> server side implementations so I was a bit surprised to learn about the
> browsers sorting habits.
>
> I argue that specifying the order is unnecessary. Am I wrong?

Yes, I should think it would be silly for a server to rely on
something like this, but I can't comment on whether or not any server
actually does rely on it.

-- 
Michael Wood <esiotrot_at_gmail.com>
Received on 2009-08-19