[whatwg] WebSocket set-cookie

Simon Pieters simonp at opera.com
Thu Jun 3 06:46:14 PDT 2010


On Fri, 07 May 2010 16:32:38 +0200, Simon Pieters <simonp at opera.com> wrote:

> establish a WebSocket connection
>
> [[
> 41. ...
>
> If the entry's name is "set-cookie" or "set-cookie2" or another  
> cookie-related field name
> If the relevant specification is supported by the user agent, handle the  
> cookie as defined by the appropriate specification, with the resource  
> being the one with the host host, the port port, the path (and possibly  
> query parameters) resource name, and the scheme http if secure is false  
> and https if secure is true. [COOKIES]
>
> If the relevant specification is not supported by the user agent, then  
> the field must be ignored.
> ]]
>
> At this point, the handshake can still fail. It seems bad to set cookies  
> if the handshake fails. We want to process set-cookie when the handshake  
> has succeeded (but before changing readyState and firing 'open').

...but still in that same task that changes readyState and fires 'open'.

-- 
Simon Pieters
Opera Software



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