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Cookie editorial #350

@mnot

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@mnot

I have some feedback regarding the Cookie Section.

Note that this algorithm requires storing the cookies from the associated request with each response.

In Firefox we currently store a hash of the Cookie header instead of the actual cookie value in order to deal with Vary: Cookie.
This is because the cookies could be large in size, and because we don't want potentially sensitive information contained in cookies to be persisted in the HTTP cache.
So I think you can implement the algorithm without storing the actual cookies in the response.

I'm also wondering if this section should mention that the response may include a Set-Cookie header with one of the indices.
I don't think anything special would need to happen, apart from this immediately invalidating the cache entry.

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