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| author | Senthil Kumaran <senthil@uthcode.com> | 2012-04-22 02:30:17 (GMT) |
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| committer | Senthil Kumaran <senthil@uthcode.com> | 2012-04-22 02:30:17 (GMT) |
| commit | a42665f4d48e11485de430f00fa4beec60a2a646 (patch) | |
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issue2193 - Update 3.2 docs about legal characters allowed in Cookie name
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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/http.cookies.rst | 10 |
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diff --git a/Doc/library/http.cookies.rst b/Doc/library/http.cookies.rst index 6baf28e..5ae3fd4 100644 --- a/Doc/library/http.cookies.rst +++ b/Doc/library/http.cookies.rst @@ -17,8 +17,14 @@ 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`). + .. note:: |