Bug 14213

Summary:

On page with MIME type application/xhtml+xml, document.cookie doesn't work

Product:

WebKit

Reporter:

François Lamboley <webkit.org>

Component:

DOM

Assignee:

Nobody <webkit-unassigned>

Status:

RESOLVED FIXED

Severity:

Enhancement

CC:

ap, ian.eng.webkit, sam

Priority:

Version:

523.x (Safari 3)

Hardware:

Mac (PowerPC)

OS:

OS X 10.4

Attachments:

Description	Flags
An xhtml file to perform test to see whether cookie work or not	none

François Lamboley

Reported 2007-06-18 06:07:09 PDT

On page with MIME type application/xhtml+xml (and so very normative), the document.cookie variable is undefined, and we can't get any cookie from that page

Attachments
An xhtml file to perform test to see whether cookie work or not (1.73 KB, application/xhtml+xml) 2007-06-18 06:13 PDT, François Lamboley	no flags	Details
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François Lamboley

Comment 1 2007-06-18 06:13:38 PDT

Created attachment 15099 [details] An xhtml file to perform test to see whether cookie work or not The xhtml file allows you to click on a blue rect to check for cookies. First a message will be displayed giving the document.cookie value (undefined if cookies don't work). Second, it will try to put something in cookie and then get what it put. Then, a message will be displayed : the value of the cookie get (null if it don't work, "aValue" else).

Mark Rowe (bdash)

Comment 2 2007-06-18 10:38:23 PDT

This would be due to "cookie" being a property of HTMLDocument as per <http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-HTML/html.html#ID-8747038>. In an XHTML document, "document" is an instance of Document rather than HTMLDocument so it lacks this property. I'm not sure that this can be considered a bug so much as a limitation of XHTML.

François Lamboley

Comment 3 2007-06-20 02:44:12 PDT

So it isn't possible to make a cookie using strict xhtml ? This should be a big regression from html 4 (in fact, firefox has cookie with xhtml, it's possible it is not normative…) !

Alexey Proskuryakov

Comment 4 2007-06-22 04:49:29 PDT