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authorR. David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com>2010-12-28 19:11:03 (GMT)
committerR. David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com>2010-12-28 19:11:03 (GMT)
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Merged revisions 87550 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k ........ r87550 | r.david.murray | 2010-12-28 13:54:13 -0500 (Tue, 28 Dec 2010) | 8 lines #9824: encode , and ; in cookie values so that browsers don't split on them There is a small chance of backward incompatibility here, but only for non-SimpleCookie applications reading SimpleCookie generated cookies. Even then, any such ap is likely to be handling escaped values already, and it would take a fairly perverse implementation of unescaping to fail to unescape these newly escaped chars, so the risk seems minimal. ........
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Library
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+- Issue 9824: SimpleCookie now encodes , and ; in values to cater to how
+ browsers actually parse cookies.
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- Issue #1379416: eliminated a source of accidental unicode promotion in
email.header.Header.encode.