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This term is no longer defined in the WebSocket Protocol spec of IETF. https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/infrastructure.html#concept-websocket-cookie-headers This change was made on https://html5.org/r/6189 2011-06-06 22:20. At that time the IETF I-D had the term defined. We had it until version 10. https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10 > 12. The request MAY include headers associated with sending cookies, > as defined by the appropriate specifications [RFC6265]. These > headers are referred to as _Headers to Send Appropriate > Cookies_. The text was rewritten to lose the term definition on update to version 11. RFC 6455 also doesn't have it.
So what should it be replaced with?
There's no good hooking point. Maybe the step 12 of https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6455#section-4.1 is sufficient? Or say like "in the step 12 of the requirements for the opening handshake, ..."
Could we just have the IETF spec fixed instead?
Emailed the IETF to ask: https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/hybi/FMPPLK-5UEUXtwaUg6DVHC-YNUY
The IETF spec doesn't define a term that apparently wasn't needed in that spec. Big deal. It seems the obvious thing to do is to define it in the API spec then.
https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/840