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Quoted cookie value in Set-Cookie header #1170

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nnposter opened this issue Apr 1, 2018 · 1 comment
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Quoted cookie value in Set-Cookie header #1170

nnposter opened this issue Apr 1, 2018 · 1 comment

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nnposter commented Apr 1, 2018

Parser for Set-Cookie header (function parse_set_cookie in http.lua) is currently treating cookie values enclosed in double quotes as intuitively expected: The string inside the quotes becomes the parsed cookie value.

However, the header syntax described in RFC 6265, section 4.1.1 does not seem to specify such behavior. While not stated explicitly, the surrounding quotes are meant to remain part of the cookie value.

Preserving the quotes appears consistent with Firefox, IE, and presumably other browsers. There are also server applications that break when these quotes are stripped off.

I am proposing to modify the parser to align it with the browser behavior. (I will be happy to implement the change but some discussion might be in order.)

Set-Cookie: aaa="b\"bb"; Path = "ddd eee" fff

...will be parsed as:

key old value new value
name aaa aaa
value b"bb "b\"bb"
path ddd eee "ddd eee" fff
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Resolved with r37235 (23d61f5)

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