Synced 1.2 release notes with 1.1.2 release notes w.r.t. cookie encoding, for consistency.

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@12288 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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Luke Plant 2010-01-24 00:10:30 +00:00
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@ -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 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. found at the end of the test runner's output.
Cookie quoting Cookie encoding
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Due to bugs and variations in web browsers, we've slightly changed the way that To fix bugs with cookies in Internet Explorer, Safari, and possibly other
cookie values are encoded. Comma (',') and semi-colon (';') now use the same browsers, our encoding of cookie values was changed so that the characters
octal encoding mechanism that is used for other special characters. If you comma and semi-colon are treated as non-safe characters, and are therefore
were not previously storing either of these two characters in cookies you are encoded as ``\054`` and ``\073`` respectively. This could produce backwards
not affected. 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: .. _deprecated-features-1.2: