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Re: RFC 2109 vs 2965

From: Bertold Kolics <Bertold.Kolics_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:29:42 -0500

Marc Hadley wrote:
> On Jun 26, 2008, at 1:16 PM, Bertold Kolics wrote:
>>
>> I noticed that the javadoc for the Cookie and NewCookie classes
>> reference the now obsolete RFC 2109. Should not they point to RFC
>> 2965 instead?
>>
> I don't know, it doesn't seem like RFC 2965 is widely implemented:
>
> http://www.mnot.net/blog/2006/10/27/cookie_fun
>
> I tried with the latest Safari, Firefox and IE and none support the
> 2965 Set-Cookie2.
>
D'oh. You must be right. It is just odd that 2109 is marked as obsolete,
but in reality few browsers fully support it. For some reason I had the
impression that 2965 was a superset of 2109. My mistake.

Bertold