Question about cookies and Netscape-Enterprise/6.0 server

[Chris Lamprecht <cl...@elitemail.org>]

I'm using HttpClient 2.0-final to do a form-based login to a
Netscape-Enterprise 6.0 server (according to the HTTP headers).  It uses
cookies to maintain the session.

When I run HttpClient in RFC2109 cookie mode, it works fine.  However, when
I switch it to either compatibility or NETSCAPE_DRAFT mode, the server seems
to ignore the cookies that HttpClient sends it.  (The server acts like the
client isn't logged in).

I used Mozilla's LiveHTTPHeaders plugin to see what Mozilla sends when I log
in using Mozilla , and the Cookie: header line is as follows:

Cookie: NSC_vuejsfdu_443=c0a8061300bb;
FC=AQEBBwID6QIQRUYzQjVGQjIxxEYzNEY0OQMJY2wxMCAgICAgBAoxMDg0OTQ5Mzk0BQ02Ni4yN
S4xMzUuMTg0BgQwU1RBCgFZCxhDaHJpc3RvcGhlciBNIExhbXByZWNodCAIgK91mi9dn0bezpWdS
OT6xTLQtpKhlyRPYs+k2+fO0fTNBQmoYD3bgefyNTlxIxRxk9p86yrOPn27LNkhUeliJlg/X+oa5
/KZ0HAWOMUIK9OvJ6yFab7WZBR1Tll6TM85yriPLSBMpNSDsV03jEkHw/h7MqRztV9EVjsU92zJG
cj/; TS=20040519011947;
SC=AQEBBwID6QIQRUYzQjVGQjIxxEYzNEY0OQYkMUU0RUE1NzA2QzQ2M0E2NkY2MUY3RDg4MDA5M
jk5MUU5MzVBBAoxMDg0OTQ5Mzk0BQ02Ni4yNS4xMzUuMTg0CgFZCIC9uBG2A5H+exOVvOEm72d9X
4oikfjht7oIFztnGUU8xmXwnFCa7XQvy/cazgK1LTePofwUKhKD//izihmmqv6RlNpdbowSa0h8D
XZtqNFKtbUj8PP5Jk9y7ZKiiRKWXYx20tlQUlo5Iig0Ts9qizm6q8PamYursfYK9lielyXPYQ==;
PDLK=NONE; DOC=/registrar/reg/Pregistration.WBX

(That should all be on a single line).

The only difference I can see in HttpClient's wire log is that it puts one
cookie per line, and it doesn't end each cookie with a semicolon:

>> "GET /registrar/reg/Pregistration.WBX HTTP/1.1[\r][\n]"
>> "Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, */*[\r][\n]"
>> "Accept-Language: en-us[\r][\n]"
>> "Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate[\r][\n]"
>> "User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR
1.0.3705)[\r][\n]"
>> "Host: xxxxx.yyyyy.edu[\r][\n]"
>> "Cookie: DOC=/index.html[\r][\n]"
>> "Cookie: PDLK=NONE[\r][\n]"
>> "Cookie:
SC=AQEBBwID6QIQRUYzQjVGQjIxNEYzNEY0OQYkOEM2RTI3RUM3MjQ4RDk4NTE5MDg5N0Y5QzhBQ
UVBODRCNjBDBAoxMDg0OTUwNTIzBQ02Ni4yNS4xMzUuMTg0CgFZCICgWfx0cCCdeTwbxBYeff42i
fXV/WWc26YqHzXnfl4CDNQazbhF3obVB6ve7SXMawMqHHfsPgcIpEbr5K5UjEcQyHO365s2OWnez
4ZiKiTtCS/dmHp+s8i5EIU/BiBJfUMmRxZ31Ll38js0OpUo5P518rZoN8g9waJCjfY2nm/kNg==[
\r][\n]"
>> "Cookie: TS=20040519013842[\r][\n]"
>> "Cookie:
FC=AQEBBwID6QIQRUYzQjVGQjIxNEYzNEY0OQMJY2wxMCAgICAgBAoxMDg0OTUwNTIzBQ02Ni4yN
S4xMzUuMTg0BgQwU1RBCgFZCxhDaHJpc3RvcGhlciBNIExhbXByZWNodCAIgLex5Xy9IKo6MG5SN
qeXcvQkqkm2SWeN50sDjvhWSAQPf1DKYpJaHaF2QF7NhQ8XyXVyDJmXzFz17wTPUUu6d/eqfoWmT
+J1N9gqycS7SjT8mb+7FPMoCxbt6iMiux0Gx40Gkepxbu+w3MhK+6FM549oWVGqgTSrHqL8+xgbT
3x3[\r][\n]"
>> "Cookie: NSC_vuejsfdu_443=c0a8061301bb[\r][\n]"

(Note:  I am intentionally setting the headers to appear like a normal
browser; that's why it says MSIE for User-Agent)

Any ideas why the server only recognizes RFC2109?

This isn't necessarily a big problem for me, since RFC2109 works, but I'm
trying to emulate a browser as _exactly_ as possible.  Thanks for your help.

Chris


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