Fixed #23638 -- Prevented crash while parsing invalid cookie content

Thanks Philip Gatt for the report and Tim Graham for the review.

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tests/handlers/tests.py b/tests/handlers/tests.py
index ee74affcc6..31a0ac38bb 100644
--- a/tests/handlers/tests.py
+++ b/tests/handlers/tests.py
@@ -80,6 +80,16 @@ class HandlerTests(TestCase):
         # much more work than fixing #20557. Feel free to remove force_str()!
         self.assertEqual(request.COOKIES['want'], force_str("café"))
 
+    def test_invalid_unicode_cookie(self):
+        """
+        Invalid cookie content should result in an absent cookie, but not in a
+        crash while trying to decode it (#23638).
+        """
+        environ = RequestFactory().get('/').environ
+        environ['HTTP_COOKIE'] = 'x=W\x03c(h]\x8e'
+        request = WSGIRequest(environ)
+        self.assertEqual(request.COOKIES, {})
+
 
 @override_settings(ROOT_URLCONF='handlers.urls')
 class TransactionsPerRequestTests(TransactionTestCase):