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Reputation: 3612

Unicode Cookie Value

I am about to start to make a cookie with Unicode value (Japanese characters) is there any problem with Unicode Cookie value? in IE 7 IE 8 Firefox, Safari, Chrome?

Thank you

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2376

Answers (3)

exebook
exebook

Reputation: 33960

I found out that Russian characters are not working as cookie values in iPhone browsers (Chrome, Safari), so I had to convert to base64. Although the same code worked well in desktop browsers without a need to convert to anything.

Upvotes: 0

Remy Lebeau
Remy Lebeau

Reputation: 597941

Technically speaking, the content of the cookie value is opaque and can be anything the server wants, even binary data, as long as the resulting HTTP headers follow the rules of the HTTP specifications. By convention, most servers encode non-ASCII data, typically with URL-encoding (a non-ASCII byte is represented as "%XX", where XX is the hex value of the byte).

Upvotes: 3

Andrey
Andrey

Reputation: 60095

you can't transfer Unicode like that in headers, you might need to encode it into base64 or quoted-printable

Upvotes: 1

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