what happens when cookies get too big?
scott hathaway
slhath at flash.net
Thu Jan 18 10:37:25 EST 2001
When IE 4 and above encounter a cookie that is too large, it tosses all
cookies for that site!
Scott
"Skip Montanaro" <skip at mojam.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.979830522.31537.python-list at python.org...
>
> This isn't really a Python question, but since I'm using Python to
implement
> things, I figured perhaps I could sneak this in.
>
> What happens when cookies get too big? Do browsers tend to barf, toss out
> the cookie, truncate it, or something else I've not anticipated? RFC 2109
> says oversize cookies (double-stuff?) must be discarded, but I wonder if
all
> browsers adhere to that requirement. I'm storing a cookie that represents
a
> list of names. It's zlib compressed and base64 encoded, so I can store
> quite a few names.
>
> Thanks,
>
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