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  r87550 | r.david.murray | 2010-12-28 13:54:13 -0500 (Tue, 28 Dec 2010) | 8 lines

  #9824: encode , and ; in cookie values so that browsers don't split on them

  There is a small chance of backward incompatibility here, but only for
  non-SimpleCookie applications reading SimpleCookie generated cookies.  Even
  then, any such ap is likely to be handling escaped values already, and it would
  take a fairly perverse implementation of unescaping to fail to unescape these
  newly escaped chars, so the risk seems minimal.
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diff --git a/Lib/Cookie.py b/Lib/Cookie.py
index b4f9db4..323450b 100644
--- a/Lib/Cookie.py
+++ b/Lib/Cookie.py
@@ -258,6 +258,11 @@
     '\033' : '\\033',  '\034' : '\\034',  '\035' : '\\035',
     '\036' : '\\036',  '\037' : '\\037',
 
+    # Because of the way browsers really handle cookies (as opposed
+    # to what the RFC says) we also encode , and ;
+
+    ',' : '\\054', ';' : '\\073',
+
     '"' : '\\"',       '\\' : '\\\\',
 
     '\177' : '\\177',  '\200' : '\\200',  '\201' : '\\201',