[issue9824] SimpleCookie should escape commas and semi-colons
Luke Plant
report at bugs.python.org
Fri Sep 10 19:08:54 CEST 2010
Luke Plant <L.Plant.98 at cantab.net> added the comment:
I forgot to mention backwards compatibility:
In the context of Cookie being used in a web application, if developers were relying on literal commas and semi-colons being present in the client side cookie value (e.g. in javascript), the patch will introduce an incompatibility.
A quick review of cookies on my computer shows that 22 out of 3079 have commas in them, and none have semi-colons in them. For those with commas, there would still only be a problem if they were reading them client side, or not using Python's Cookie library to decode the values server side.
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