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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/cookie.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/cookie.h | 16 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/lib/cookie.h b/lib/cookie.h index c588bbbb8..77c3f6124 100644 --- a/lib/cookie.h +++ b/lib/cookie.h @@ -69,12 +69,17 @@ struct CookieInfo { curl_off_t next_expiration; /* the next time at which expiration happens */ }; -/* This is the maximum line length we accept for a cookie line. RFC 2109 - section 6.3 says: +/* This is the maximum line length we accept for a cookie line. RFC 6265 + section 6.1 says "general-use user agents SHOULD provide each of the + following minimum capabilities": - "at least 4096 bytes per cookie (as measured by the size of the characters - that comprise the cookie non-terminal in the syntax description of the - Set-Cookie header)" + - At least 4096 bytes per cookie (as measured by the sum of the length of + the cookie's name, value, and attributes). + + In the 6265bis draft-10 document section 5.4 it is phrased even stronger: + "If the sum of the lengths of the name string and the value string is more + than 4096 octets, abort these steps and ignore the set-cookie-string + entirely." We allow max 5000 bytes cookie header. Max 4095 bytes length per cookie name and value. Name + value may not exceed 4096 bytes. @@ -85,7 +90,6 @@ struct CookieInfo { /* Maximum length of an incoming cookie name or content we deal with. Longer cookies are ignored. */ #define MAX_NAME 4096 -#define MAX_NAME_TXT "4095" /* Maximum size for an outgoing cookie line libcurl will use in an http request. This is the default maximum length used in some versions of Apache |