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| author | Senthil Kumaran <senthil@uthcode.com> | 2012-04-22 02:31:52 (GMT) |
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| committer | Senthil Kumaran <senthil@uthcode.com> | 2012-04-22 02:31:52 (GMT) |
| commit | df7070a7517f7af6b9fd49238e2a65ca4a29c697 (patch) | |
| tree | 5ecef4b1dbe82f2126f122bbc45b080c5fced8b8 | |
| parent | 6c802b8491200ac360ff407603f72704f4ccdf66 (diff) | |
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issue2193 - Update docs about the legal characters allowed in Cookie name
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/http.cookies.rst | 13 |
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diff --git a/Doc/library/http.cookies.rst b/Doc/library/http.cookies.rst index 6baf28e..646f2e8 100644 --- a/Doc/library/http.cookies.rst +++ b/Doc/library/http.cookies.rst @@ -17,8 +17,17 @@ cookie value. The module formerly strictly applied the parsing rules described in the :rfc:`2109` and :rfc:`2068` specifications. It has since been discovered that -MSIE 3.0x doesn't follow the character rules outlined in those specs. As a -result, the parsing rules used are a bit less strict. +MSIE 3.0x doesn't follow the character rules outlined in those specs and also +many current day browsers and servers have relaxed parsing rules when comes to +Cookie handling. As a result, the parsing rules used are a bit less strict. + +The character set, :data:`string.ascii_letters`, :data:`string.digits` and +``!#$%&'*+-.^_`|~:`` denote the set of valid characters allowed by this module +in Cookie name (as :attr:`~Morsel.key`). + +.. versionchanged:: 3.3 + Allowed ':' as a valid Cookie name character. + .. note:: |