issue2193 - Update 3.2 docs about legal characters allowed in Cookie name

diff --git a/Doc/library/http.cookies.rst b/Doc/library/http.cookies.rst
index 6baf28ec98f7af01675f1cdc092aab5cdf4650c4..5ae3fd40de74033e6924dcbe3f9eb3dac4e3551e 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/http.cookies.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/http.cookies.rst
@@ -17,8 +17,14 @@ cookie value.
 
 The module formerly strictly applied the parsing rules described in the
 :rfc:`2109` and :rfc:`2068` specifications.  It has since been discovered that
-MSIE 3.0x doesn't follow the character rules outlined in those specs.  As a
-result, the parsing rules used are a bit less strict.
+MSIE 3.0x doesn't follow the character rules outlined in those specs and also
+many current day browsers and servers have relaxed parsing rules when comes to
+Cookie handling.  As a result, the parsing rules used are a bit less strict.
+
+The character set, :data:`string.ascii_letters`, :data:`string.digits` and
+``!#$%&'*+-.^_`|~`` denote the set of valid characters allowed by this module
+in Cookie name (as :attr:`~Morsel.key`).
+
 
 .. note::