LYNX-DEV 27bugfixes update

[Foteos Macrides]

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1997-02-25
* More reverse engineering to cope with Netscape's bogus cookie header
  parsing.  The parser must not require an '=' between the expires
  attribute name and value, because Set-Cookie headers are being
  transmitted without it (e.g., by http://law.agps.gov.au).  So Lynx
  now treats that as another special case. - FM
* Cope with invalid use of expires attributes in Version 1 cookies.
  An -06 State Management draft recommends that for "backward
  compatibility", and has been severely criticized in the HTTP-WG,
  but it would be foolish not to assume Netscape will do that.  See the
  expanded comments in LYSetCookie() of LYCookie.c for more information.
  Note that "expires" thus cannot be used as a Version 1 cookie name, but
  a provider would be foolish to use that, anyway.  Note also that the
  possibility of using different header names for Version 1 versus
  Version 0 (a.k.a., "Netscape") cookies is being discussed in the
  HTTP-WG, which might have been better to do in the first place, but
  the -05 draft has been approved as RFC 2109:
    http://info.internet.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc/files/rfc2109.txt
  so it would be a while before that were done, if ever. - FM


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