Commit ea17082c authored by Senthil Kumaran's avatar Senthil Kumaran

Update 2.7 docs about legal characters allowed in Cookie name

parent 52849bfa
...@@ -22,8 +22,14 @@ cookie value. ...@@ -22,8 +22,14 @@ cookie value.
The module formerly strictly applied the parsing rules described in the The module formerly strictly applied the parsing rules described in the
:rfc:`2109` and :rfc:`2068` specifications. It has since been discovered that :rfc:`2109` and :rfc:`2068` specifications. It has since been discovered that
MSIE 3.0x doesn't follow the character rules outlined in those specs. As a MSIE 3.0x doesn't follow the character rules outlined in those specs and also
result, the parsing rules used are a bit less strict. many current day browsers and servers have relaxed parsing rules when comes to
Cookie handling. As a result, the parsing rules used are a bit less strict.
The character set, :data:`string.ascii_letters`, :data:`string.digits` and
``!#$%&'*+-.^_`|~`` denote the set of valid characters allowed by this module
in Cookie name (as :attr:`~Morsel.key`).
.. note:: .. note::
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