[thelist] CF: cookie versus cflocation?!?
Oliver Lineham
oliver at lineham.co.nz
Sat Sep 23 22:17:55 CDT 2000
At 22:28 23/09/00 -0400, you wrote:
> From what I understand, you are not supposed to send cookies in redirection
>headers. It is technically possible, and done in most other languages, but
>CF decided to follow the rules and don't allow cookies to be set during a
>CFLOCATION. It has been that way since CFLOCATION and CFCOOKIE were
>introduced, and truly is a pain in the ass.
Does anyone know of any browsers that reject cookies in redirects?
If there is, it might be worth avoiding it in other languages too.
>As an aside, I used to have the link to the spec that said no cookies in 302
>headers ( or 301 I think?), but standards no one follows don't really
>matter.
I have the "HTTP state mechanism" RFC here somewhere.
>I have a standard that says everybody that comes to my house has to
>bring beer, but so few people follow it. And hardly anyone knows it is a
>standard. sigh.
Life's a bitch :)
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