Safari too communicative?
I just recieved two mails from the crashhandler of my website. The code that I wrote to serve the pages crashed for some reasons - I have not investigated the bug involved, but the reports where actually more interesting. Included in such a mail is - besides the obligatory stack traceback - a dump of the environment (the code is running as CGI). Most of the text was occupied by a large list of cookies sent by some users webbrowser - cookies that where definitely not set by my domain.
The User-Agent is Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/106.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/100.1 and the referrer looks real, so I suspect that this is not a bot trying to find a hole in my cookie handling.
The cookies sent looked like:
ASPSESSIONIDQCSCSTQQ=HKOHLDNAHFEDGAAFHPLDJFEJ; CSAnonymous=f276dad8-134c-454f-93cd-e0538e3c2b96; PHPSESSID=e68ab1d3609b584692e9af650baa7ca4; ASP.NET_SessionId=d4qamdzubtfehw53eozfyyi5; SID=67386da21439b268697c0d8782cf9272; ASPSESSIONIDSQBRTCDQ=BCTBLALDAHMOEMFVDNANECJA; phpbb2mysql_data=a%3A0%5E%7B%37; accepte=no; ...
If this is really a real Safari/100.1 and not a fake: why does it send me all these cookies? A 2 minute Google session did not reveal any bug in Safaris cookie handling of such severity...
- Written on August, 15 2005 at 12:40
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