[plt-scheme] net/cookie and IE

From: Rob Hunter (rob.hunter at gmail.com)
Date: Wed Oct 8 17:44:24 EDT 2008

Could be related to this issue that I had too:
http://list.cs.brown.edu/pipermail/plt-scheme/2008-January/022721.html

Honestly, I can't remember how I fixed this, but I can probably
reconstruct what I did if it would be helpful.

--rob


On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 2:39 PM, YC <yinso.chen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi -
>
> I just found a problem with the interaction between net/cookie and IE (I
> tested on IE7).
>
> Basically - when generating a cookie with `(cookie:add-path cookie "/")`, it
> generates the following cookie:
>
> key=value; Path="/"; Version=1
>
> The Path spec works in Firefox, but not in IE.  IE expects Path=/ (without
> the double quotes) instead, and it drops the cookie (and breaks cookie-based
> session) in response.
>
> From RFC 2109, this appears to be an IE bug, but changing IE's behavior
> might be beyond us ... :)
>
> p.s. this might be related the thread
> http://www.cs.brown.edu/pipermail/plt-scheme/2007-July/019420.html
>
> Thanks,
> yc
>
>
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