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| author | Luke Plant <L.Plant.98@cantab.net> | 2010-01-24 00:10:30 +0000 |
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| committer | Luke Plant <L.Plant.98@cantab.net> | 2010-01-24 00:10:30 +0000 |
| commit | 739d5aec0f85091ff26c2b5578ab597f8d17ca7f (patch) | |
| tree | 48c2d893365591a4222b82d97c044fc34f0b7a2f /docs | |
| parent | e6c5599494e5408c81b046d2b7410e9e4a98a7b5 (diff) | |
Synced 1.2 release notes with 1.1.2 release notes w.r.t. cookie encoding, for consistency.
git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@12288 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/releases/1.2.txt | 16 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/docs/releases/1.2.txt b/docs/releases/1.2.txt index a2c70fed06..f83e4dcc90 100644 --- a/docs/releases/1.2.txt +++ b/docs/releases/1.2.txt @@ -240,14 +240,16 @@ status code for the test runner is now 0 for success (no failing tests) and 1 for any number of test failures. If needed, the number of test failures can be found at the end of the test runner's output. -Cookie quoting --------------- +Cookie encoding +--------------- -Due to bugs and variations in web browsers, we've slightly changed the way that -cookie values are encoded. Comma (',') and semi-colon (';') now use the same -octal encoding mechanism that is used for other special characters. If you -were not previously storing either of these two characters in cookies you are -not affected. +To fix bugs with cookies in Internet Explorer, Safari, and possibly other +browsers, our encoding of cookie values was changed so that the characters +comma and semi-colon are treated as non-safe characters, and are therefore +encoded as ``\054`` and ``\073`` respectively. This could produce backwards +incompatibilities, especially if you are storing comma or semi-colon in +cookies and have javascript code that parses and manipulates cookie values +client-side. .. _deprecated-features-1.2: |