Luke Plant added the comment:

I'm a core developer on Django, and I've looked into cookies a lot, and also 
Python's SimpleCookie, and I've found that all accepted RFCs are completely 
irrelevant for this issue.

No accepted RFC was ever widely implemented - instead browsers mainly did 
something like the original "Netscape cookies", with various interpretations. 
Opera attempted RFC 2965, at least at one point, but no-one else.

RFC 6265, whatever its status, is probably the closest thing to a useful 
document of how cookies "should" work. But even then, I'm afraid that the main 
guiding principle has to be sheer pragmatism. Read the source code or bug 
trackers of any other project that has to handle cookies and you'll find they 
have all come to that conclusion, unfortunately.

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