Synced 1.2 release notes with 1.1.2 release notes w.r.t. cookie encoding, for consistency. (739d5aec) · Commits · Dom Sekotill / django

docs/releases/1.2.txt

+9 −7

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -240,14 +240,16 @@ status code for the test runner is now 0 for success (no failing tests) and 1
		for any number of test failures. If needed, the number of test failures can be
		found at the end of the test runner's output.

		Cookie quoting
		--------------
		Cookie encoding
		---------------

		Due to bugs and variations in web browsers, we've slightly changed the way that
		cookie values are encoded. Comma (',') and semi-colon (';') now use the same
		octal encoding mechanism that is used for other special characters. If you
		were not previously storing either of these two characters in cookies you are
		not affected.
		To fix bugs with cookies in Internet Explorer, Safari, and possibly other
		browsers, our encoding of cookie values was changed so that the characters
		comma and semi-colon are treated as non-safe characters, and are therefore
		encoded as ``\054`` and ``\073`` respectively. This could produce backwards
		incompatibilities, especially if you are storing comma or semi-colon in
		cookies and have javascript code that parses and manipulates cookie values
		client-side.

		.. _deprecated-features-1.2: