Sending cookies conforms too closely to the spec

[bringert]

From http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=471140:

Package: libghc6-http-dev
Version: 30010004-2
Severity: wishlist

When sending cookies in a request, the cookies get sent with $Version,
$Path, and $Domain set, one cookie per header. While this conforms
exactly to the spec, there are some servers that don't process these
headers correctly. It might be nice if there were some way of specifying
that cookies could be sent in a more iceweasel-like manner.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686-bigmem (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages libghc6-http-dev depends on:
ii  ghc6                          6.8.2-2    GHC - the Glasgow Haskell Compilat
ii  libghc6-network-dev           2.1.0.0-1  Haskell network library for GHC
ii  libghc6-parsec-dev            2.1.0.0-1  Haskell monadic parser combinator 

libghc6-http-dev recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

[bringert]

It's not clear to me what servers this concerns, nor what exactly needs to be changed. What does Iceweasel do?

[warmenhoven@…]

I'm talking specifically about livejournal.com. I was trying to see my friends' "friends-only" entries, but it wasn't paying attention to my cookies. When I changed it to be more like firefox, it worked.

Firefox sends:

Cookie: <name>=<value>; <name>=<value>;

[nomeata@…]

Hi,

just wondering while cleaning the debian bugtracking system: Is this going to be fixed, will it not be fixed, or does it depend? :-)