dgaudet 97/07/21 21:57:19
Modified: htdocs/manual/misc known_client_problems.html Log: Add note about Set-Cookies. Revision Changes Path 1.2 +9 -0 apache/htdocs/manual/misc/known_client_problems.html Index: known_client_problems.html =================================================================== RCS file: /export/home/cvs/apache/htdocs/manual/misc/known_client_problems.html,v retrieving revision 1.1 retrieving revision 1.2 diff -u -r1.1 -r1.2 --- known_client_problems.html 1997/07/20 21:26:47 1.1 +++ known_client_problems.html 1997/07/22 04:57:18 1.2 @@ -182,6 +182,15 @@ version 3.01 is used with it, it will not properly understand byteranges. The user must upgrade their Acrobat reader to 3.01. +<a name="cookie-merge"><h3><code>Set-Cookie</code> header is unmergeable</h3></a> + +<p>The HTTP specifications say that it is legal to merge headers with +duplicate names into one (separated by semicolon). Some browsers +that support Cookies don't like merged headers and prefer that each +<code>Set-Cookie</code> header is sent separately. When parsing the +headers returned by a CGI, Apache will explicitly avoid merging any +<code>Set-Cookie</code> headers. + <!--#include virtual="footer.html" --> </BODY> </HTML>
