From a42665f4d48e11485de430f00fa4beec60a2a646 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Senthil Kumaran Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 10:30:17 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] issue2193 - Update 3.2 docs about legal characters allowed in Cookie name --- Doc/library/http.cookies.rst | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/http.cookies.rst b/Doc/library/http.cookies.rst index 6baf28ec98f..5ae3fd40de7 100644 --- a/Doc/library/http.cookies.rst +++ b/Doc/library/http.cookies.rst @@ -17,8 +17,14 @@ cookie value. The module formerly strictly applied the parsing rules described in the :rfc:`2109` and :rfc:`2068` specifications. It has since been discovered that -MSIE 3.0x doesn't follow the character rules outlined in those specs. As a -result, the parsing rules used are a bit less strict. +MSIE 3.0x doesn't follow the character rules outlined in those specs and also +many current day browsers and servers have relaxed parsing rules when comes to +Cookie handling. As a result, the parsing rules used are a bit less strict. + +The character set, :data:`string.ascii_letters`, :data:`string.digits` and +``!#$%&'*+-.^_`|~`` denote the set of valid characters allowed by this module +in Cookie name (as :attr:`~Morsel.key`). + .. note::