RFR 8020758: HttpCookie constructor does not throw IAE when name contains a space

[Michael McMahon]

I agree. The change looks fine to me.

Thanks
Michael

On 23/10/13 12:09, Chris Hegarty wrote:
> Mark, Michael,
>
> java.net.HttpCookie, rightly or wrongly, supports three different 
> Cookie specifications. Some of these are conflicting, and there have 
> been many many bugs reported against various "special" characters 
> being accepted.
>
> This one is hopefully straight forward. The issue is specifically 
> complaining about a space in the cookie name. Looking at the Netscape 
> cookie draft [1] and RFC 2965 [2], they both seem to restrict a space 
> in the cookie name, so I see no conflict in specs here. It seems 
> reasonable to add this restriction.
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~chegar/8020758/webrev.00/
>
> Additionally, since we are now adding a further restriction on the 
> accepted characters in the cookie name, there is a slight 
> compatibility risk. I believe this risk to be very small, and cannot 
> find any evidence of cookies with spaces in there names.
>
> Thanks,
> -Chris.
>
> [1] 
> http://web.archive.org/web/20020803110822/http://wp.netscape.com/newsref/std/cookie_spec.html
> [2] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2965.txt