Stupid Safari

[ewx]

I send (for instance):

Set-Cookie: disorder="477beccb;richard;IzMWvU6m+3ygQVfs36uA/EfrwtU=";Version=1;Path="/index.cgi"

Firefox manages to send me back the same cookie. But Safari thinks the disorder cookie is "477beccb.

If I send (for instance):

disorder=477bf05c$richard$EMs5FryOja7USSFoCKpvQAtLstI#;Version=1;Path=/index.cgi

...then Safari copes too.

RFC2109 does mention that some old software might not cope with quoted cookies. But you'd have thought Safari could manage to follow a specification more than twice its own age (the RFC dates from 1997, Safari first appeared in 2003).

I assume this is one of those things where everyone knows you can't use quoted cookies except people who actually read the spec.

Comments

[gerald_duck]

Hmm. I'm clearly losing my touch.

I was expecting some photos of animals doing dumb things…

[ewx.livejournal.com]

I find “stupid <some bit of software>” is a depressingly common phrase l-(

WebKit bug report

[(Anonymous)]

Upon reading this book, I forwarded it to someone on the WebKit team, who told me to file a bug, so I did: http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16699

The bug is not in Safari, but a lower-level component, and is now in a bug report internal to Apple somewhere.

Re: WebKit bug report

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Thanks, that's useful.

So has this software never been tested with quoted cookies before or something then?