Re: [PATCH] url: Wrap cookie headers in url-http--encode-string.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Cc: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <address@hidden>,
>         address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2016 13:47:46 -0400
> 
> > If that file is guaranteed to be pure ASCII, we can indeed force the
> > string returned by url-cookie-generate-header to be unibyte.
> > Otherwise we need to encode it.
> 
> AFAIK the cookie data is "sequence of bytes", i.e. not "pure ASCII".

Not according to my reading of the Wikipedia, but maybe that is
inaccurate.

> And yes the domain names may include non-ASCII characters, so we have to
> encode those somehow (unless the URL library already encodes them for
> us before url-cookie receives them).

I meant the domain that is recorded in the cookies file.  It is read
with 'load', which AFAIU assumes UTF-8 in the absence of a coding
cookie.