Duh, of course. Thanks for catching that. Doing it at the comparison point is wrong though, the real fix is to de-escape the URI encoding for cookie data when it's parsed. That means simply:

--- pmchatter.html.old  2004-12-19 17:05:59.000000000 +0100
+++ pmchatter.html      2004-12-19 17:05:13.000000000 +0100
@@ -17,3 +17,3 @@
                        var kv = record[ i ].split( /=/ );
-                       this.data[ kv[ 0 ] ] = kv[ 1 ];
+                       this.data[ decodeURIComponent( kv[ 0 ] ) ] = d
+ecodeURIComponent( kv[ 1 ] );
                }
@@ -63,3 +63,3 @@
        if( userpass.length ) {
-               req.setRequestHeader( 'Cookie', 'userpass=' + userpass
+ );
+               req.setRequestHeader( 'Cookie', 'userpass=' + encodeUR
+IComponent( userpass ) );
        }

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I updated the root node.

Update: it wasn't quite as trivial — need to re-escape the cookie to send it, of course.

Makeshifts last the longest.

In reply to Re^2: A new chatterbox flavour by Aristotle
in thread A new chatterbox flavour by Aristotle

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