[issue31456] SimpleCookie fails to parse any cookie if an entry has whitespace in the name

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[issue31456] SimpleCookie fails to parse any cookie if an entry has whitespace in the name

Rémi Lapeyre added the comment: It may be relevant: Ruby accept whitespaces in the name of the morsel: ➜ ~ irb irb(main):002:0> require "cgi" => true irb(main):003:0> CGI::Cookie::parse "ASDF=stuff; ASDF space=more stuff" => {"ASDF"=>##https://bugs.python.org/issue31456>

[issue31456] SimpleCookie fails to parse any cookie if an entry has whitespace in the name

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[issue31456] SimpleCookie fails to parse any cookie if an entry has whitespace in the name

Martin Panter added the comment: The main cause of this behaviour is that whitespace (matching the ASCII RE “\s”) is treated as separation between cookie “morsels”. It looks like this has always been the behaviour, but I’m not sure it was intended. >>> print(BaseCookie('first=morsel

[issue31456] SimpleCookie fails to parse any cookie if an entry has whitespace in the name

Adam Davis added the comment: Quietly throw out the one bad value, sure. You lose all cookies in your cookie string in this scenario. I'd expect "ASDF=stuff; ASDF space=more stuff" to at least kick out the values that are legal. --

[issue31456] SimpleCookie fails to parse any cookie if an entry has whitespace in the name

Brad Smith added the comment: According to RFC-6265 (which also references RFC-2616 to define "tokens"), the space character (and whitespace in general) is not valid in cookie-names or cookie-values. RFC-6265: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6265#section-4.1.1 RFC-2616:

[issue31456] SimpleCookie fails to parse any cookie if an entry has whitespace in the name

New submission from Adam Davis: ```>>> from http.cookies import SimpleCookie >>> cookie_string = "ASDF=stuff; ASDF space=more stuff" >>> cookie = SimpleCookie() >>> cookie.load(cookie_string) >>> cookie.items() dict_items([]) >>> cookie_string = "ASDF=stuff" >>> cookie.load(cookie_string) >>>