From: dgaudet <dgaudet@unknown>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 04:57:18 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add note about Set-Cookies.
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Add note about Set-Cookies.


git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk@78735 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
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diff --git a/docs/manual/misc/known_client_problems.html b/docs/manual/misc/known_client_problems.html
index 0dde9c29445..f75e2efb4af 100644
--- a/docs/manual/misc/known_client_problems.html
+++ b/docs/manual/misc/known_client_problems.html
@@ -182,6 +182,15 @@ with MSIE 3 is actually due to the Acrobat plugin, not due to the browser.
 version 3.01 is used with it, it will not properly understand byteranges.
 The user must upgrade their Acrobat reader to 3.01.
 
+<a name="cookie-merge"><h3><code>Set-Cookie</code> header is unmergeable</h3></a>
+
+<p>The HTTP specifications say that it is legal to merge headers with
+duplicate names into one (separated by semicolon).  Some browsers
+that support Cookies don't like merged headers and prefer that each
+<code>Set-Cookie</code> header is sent separately.  When parsing the
+headers returned by a CGI, Apache will explicitly avoid merging any
+<code>Set-Cookie</code> headers.
+
 <!--#include virtual="footer.html" -->
 </BODY>
 </HTML>