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Author gvanrossum
Recipients Pathangi Jatinshravan, Tim.Graham, gvanrossum, martin.panter, pitrou, r.david.murray
Date 2015-11-01.16:57:10
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I'm coming at this without much context (I don't recall the original issue)
but IIUC from a security POV, lenient parsing is unsafe -- it could allow
an attacker to modify a cookie (or part of a cookie -- I'm unclear on the
correct terminology here) and that's what we're trying to avoid.
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