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Author	spookylukey
Recipients	spookylukey
Date	2010-09-10.17:08:52
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Message-id	<1284138534.02.0.950342053029.issue9824@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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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.

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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