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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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 Library
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+- Issue 9824: SimpleCookie now encodes , and ; in values to cater to how
+  browsers actually parse cookies.
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 - Issue #1379416: eliminated a source of accidental unicode promotion in
   email.header.Header.encode.