Re: lynx-dev Bug#35523: lynx: cookie handling broken with non-printable characters (fwd)

[Chris Lawrence]

On Apr 05, Chris Lawrence wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Klaus Weide wrote:
> > It just isn't possible to send a cookie like the following with HTTP:
> > 
> >     Set-Cookie: bunny="I3\012."
> >     (where \012 is LF)
> > 
> > Either the person reporting this misunderstands what's going on, or
> > is leaving out some information.
> 
> It may be a literal \012.  I need to take a look at the raw HTTP
> datastream from the CGI script, however.

Here's a transcript of a telnet session; it is a literal \012:

Trying 216.92.38.187...
Connected to lordsutch.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD / HTTP/1.0

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 03:45:00 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.3
Cache-Control: no-cache
Content-Language: en
Expires: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 04:45:02 GMT
Pragma: no-cache
Set-Cookie: firstvisit="I923543100\012."; Max-Age=5184000;
Set-Cookie: visitor=dialup136.WaterValley.Net; Max-Age=5184000;
Set-Cookie: count="I1\012."; Max-Age=5184000;
Last-Modified: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 17:27:49 GMT
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html

Connection closed by foreign host.

The problem: the quotes aren't being stored in the .lynx_cookies file.


Chris
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