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Bug 8822 - should make cookie setting dependent on whether the document has a URL, not on whether it has a browsing context; and should fail silently (set does nothing, get returns "") when there isn't one.
Summary: should make cookie setting dependent on whether the document has a URL, not o...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: LC
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2010-01-26 23:44 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2010-10-04 13:58 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description contributor 2010-01-26 23:44:11 UTC 
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#dom-document-cookie

Comment:
should make cookie setting dependent on whether the document has a URL, not on
whether it has a browsing context; and should fail silently (set does nothing,
get returns "") when there isn't one.

Posted from: 216.239.45.4
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-02-14 03:49:23 UTC 
This would imply that an XHR doc could have cookies set on it, but I can't find any UAs that allow that.

See also: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32115
Comment 2 Anne 2010-02-14 12:03:00 UTC 
Per
http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/XMLHttpRequest-2/#document-response-entity-body
XMLHttpRequest returns the empty string for cookie but only for non same-origin
documents. It should always return the empty string however because we also
disallow access to Cookie headers. And setting should just be ignored.

I would prefer it if HTML5 could define this so all .cookie information is
self-contained.
Comment 3 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-02-18 05:47:09 UTC 
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Status: Accepted
Change Description: see diff given below
Rationale: Concurred with all the above comments.
Comment 4 contributor 2010-02-18 05:49:15 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r4778.
Check-in comment: Redefine how .cookie is handled.
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=4777&to=4778