{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/expressjs/cookie-session/issues/16","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/expressjs/cookie-session/issues/16/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/expressjs/cookie-session/issues/16/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/expressjs/cookie-session/issues/16/events","html_url":"https://github.com/expressjs/cookie-session/issues/16","id":36951894,"number":16,"title":"Default cookie name doesn't satisfy RFC6265","user":{"login":"guersam","id":969120,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/969120?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/guersam","html_url":"https://github.com/guersam","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/guersam/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/guersam/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/guersam/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/guersam/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/guersam/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/guersam/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/guersam/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/guersam/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/guersam/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/expressjs/cookie-session/labels/bug","name":"bug","color":"fc2929"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":7,"created_at":"2014-07-02T04:44:22Z","updated_at":"2015-04-14T19:46:03Z","closed_at":null,"body":"The default cookie name [`express:sess`](https://github.com/expressjs/cookie-session/blob/master/index.js#L22) contains `:`, which is not a valid token character in accordance with [RFC6265](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6265#section-4.1.1) and [RFC2616](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-2.2). Although most web browsers and servers allow this, it causes problems in some more strict environment such as [spray](http://spray.io).\r\n\r\nWould you consider remaining it? If so, should we take backward compatibility into account?\r\n\r\np.s. I posted the same issue as koajs/session#28."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/expressjs/cookie-session/issues/comments/93038165","html_url":"https://github.com/expressjs/cookie-session/issues/16#issuecomment-93038165","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/expressjs/cookie-session/issues/16","id":93038165,"user":{"login":"dougwilson","id":67512,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/67512?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/dougwilson","html_url":"https://github.com/dougwilson","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dougwilson/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dougwilson/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dougwilson/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dougwilson/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dougwilson/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dougwilson/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dougwilson/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dougwilson/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dougwilson/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-04-14T19:46:03Z","updated_at":"2015-04-14T19:46:03Z","body":"@anextro no, not until the next major release. You can always just use a different cookie name from the default for your app in the meantime."}}