Bug#563193: HTTP::Cookies::Netscape: parser is too rigid

[Gabor Kiss]

Package: libwww-perl
Version: 5.813-1
Severity: normal

HTTP::Cookies::Netscape::load() checks the first line of cookie file:

    unless ($magic =~ /^\#(?: Netscape)? HTTP Cookie File/) {

However It seems to be too restrictive. wget saves cookies in file
that begins with this:

# HTTP cookie file

Following Postel's robustness principle.
the regular expression above might be:

/^\#(?: Netscape)? HTTP [cC]ookie [fF]ile/


Gabor

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.3
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (700, 'stable'), (500, 'proposed-updates')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages libwww-perl depends on:
ii  libhtml-parser-perl      3.56-1+b1       A collection of modules that parse
ii  libhtml-tagset-perl      3.20-2          Data tables pertaining to HTML
ii  libhtml-tree-perl        3.23-1          represent and create HTML syntax t
ii  liburi-perl              1.35.dfsg.1-1   Manipulates and accesses URI strin
ii  netbase                  4.34            Basic TCP/IP networking system
ii  perl [libdigest-md5-perl 5.10.0-19lenny2 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

Versions of packages libwww-perl recommends:
ii  libcompress-zlib-perl         2.012-1    Perl module for creation and manip
ii  libhtml-format-perl           2.04-2     format HTML syntax trees into text
ii  libmailtools-perl             2.03-1     Manipulate email in perl programs

Versions of packages libwww-perl suggests:
ii  libio-socket-ssl-perl      1.16-1+lenny1 Perl module implementing object or

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