Bug #7021: WEBrick::HTTPUtils.parse_header "normalizing" white space of cookie values.

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: nahi (Hiroshi Nakamura)
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: ruby 1.9.3p194 (2012-04-20 revision 35410) [x86_64-darwin11.3.0]

[boris317 (shawn adams)]

parse_header calls value.gsub!(/\s+/, " ") on ALL header values. I am using a web framework that runs on WEBrick as an HTTP proxy. When the cookies pass through the proxy the whitespace is normalized which is actually breaking the outgoing service call. There is a length "flag" in the cookie and stripping any whitespace from it breaks that. Is it intended behavior to normalize whitespace in request cookie values?

[boris317 (shawn adams)]

I forgot to add this in the description here is the style of cookie that is giving me issues:

Cookie: testcookie=FOO BAR8;

There are two spaces between and FOO and BAR and its important that they stay that way.

[zzak (zzak _)]

• Category set to lib
• Assignee set to nahi (Hiroshi Nakamura)

[usa (Usaku NAKAMURA)]

• Status changed from Open to Assigned

[jeremyevans0 (Jeremy Evans)]

I agree this is a bug that violates RFC 2616 and RFC 7230 and have submitted a pull request to fix this issue: https://github.com/ruby/webrick/pull/23

[jeremyevans0 (Jeremy Evans)]

• Status changed from Assigned to Closed

Pull request merged: https://github.com/ruby/webrick/pull/23