ID:               32860
 User updated by:  ast at gmx dot ch
 Reported By:      ast at gmx dot ch
 Status:           Open
 Bug Type:         Feature/Change Request
 Operating System: *
 PHP Version:      4.3.11
 New Comment:

quoted-string cookies are defined as cookies with a value that is a
quoted-string, quoted by double-quote marks.

You refer to PHP's mechanism to urlencode all cookie values resulting
in TOKEN values. This mechanism is indeed suggested in netscapes
standard.

I've pointed the difference of these things out in my bug report. So,
please don't say what I claim is wrong, because that is simply not
true.

Handle it as a feature request if you prefer that. It's ok.

Thanks for the discussion. After all, we all agree on the state (PHP
4.3.11 implements cookie standard 0 (netscape)) and what it doesn't
(RFC 2109 which is as old as PHP 2).


Previous Comments:
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[2005-04-28 16:52:08] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

You claimed that PHP handles quoted-strings within cookies
incorrectly.

This is simply wrong. PHP supports version 0 cookies, like all browsers
do by default and there are no quoted-strings in the version 0
standard.

It doesn't matter when the Cookie Version 1 RFCs were released. Fact
is: the web uses mainly version 0 cookies.
So Jani was right when he changed this into a feature request.


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[2005-04-28 15:41:08] ast at gmx dot ch

Fact is that PHP 2 was released after RFC 2109 and the dev cycle of PHP
3, 4, and 5 started completely after RFC 2109 was published.

Interpret the issue as you want. I just wanted to help you to be more
standards compliant.

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[2005-04-28 14:40:05] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

You are wrong. It is not a bug.

PHP implements Cookie version 0 which is based upon the Netscape Cookie
standard.

Both RFCs 2109/2965 speak of Cookie version 1.



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[2005-04-28 12:03:44] ast at gmx dot ch

But even the initial cookie RFC, http://rfc.net/rfc2109.html, described
that a value may be either a TOKEN or a quoted-string. The only
difference to the new cookie RFC, RFC 2965, is that <"> are not allowed
in quoted-string values of the old version while they may be in
quoted-string values, just escaped by the escape character "\" in the
new version.

Therefore, the separaters "," and ";" are allowed in quoted-string
values even in the old cookie RFC.

Maybe you could list it as a low-priority bug, but it's a bug and not a
feature or a change request.

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[2005-04-28 08:16:09] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

When PHP was written, this RFC did not yet exist - that's why we
classify it as a feature request - it's basically "cookie version 1.1".

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