Comment 39 for bug 44062

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In , Dwitte (dwitte) wrote :

Re comment 33, a version 2 cookie header will begin "Cookie:2;" or similar... so
it seems you can distinguish between them.

Re comment 37, it would be nice to make the domain/path info available... I
suppose sites that really care about this can start using it, but that's not
going to have any immediate effect on anything until IE follows suit, right? The
domain/path info would definitely be much nicer than having a blacklist, if that
info were used serverside.

The goal of preventing TLD cookies here was not to solve the above problem
completely, but just to mitigate it - injection attacks within a site domain
will be much less frequent than within an entire TLD, and for sites that care
about these things (e.g. banks) it will solve the problem completely, since they
can trust their domain.

darin, dveditz, do you see any alternatives we can implement that will have an
immediate effect here, if blacklisting is unacceptable? Do you think that
exposing domain/path information will be sufficient?