bpo-991266: Fix quoting of the Comment attribute of SimpleCookie by berkerpeksag · Pull Request #6555 · python/cpython (original) (raw)

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Like I said in the issue (https://bugs.python.org/issue991266#msg315499) I'm a bit reluctant on that idea. The situation with cookie specs is a bit painful to deal :) Also, I'm not sure we can do that in bugfix releases because of backwards compatibility reasons.

Perhaps we can be a little bit conservative and merge this for now and discuss (like taking a look at other programming languages) a broader change like you and Mark mentioned in the issue for 3.8? I wrote this patch almost two years ago and to be honest I don't remember RFC 6265 and other relevant specs (2109, 2068 etc.) anymore :)