Comment 2 for bug 142226

As the original poster, let me clarify why this is a problem. It has nothing to do with specs or free quoting. The problem is cookies are used across technologies: My Zope set cookies will be read by javascript and/or apache servers and god-knows-what else. Ramming quotes around them (indeed, any magic wrapping) makes zope cookies incompatible with 3rd party technologies. Zope might like to pretend it lives in a vacuum but my cookies certainly don't.

There is a work around at least. It is also too late to fix this as it would break existing cookies. I feel the existing behavior probably should remain but it needs to be documented and the setHeader workaround should be mentioned in the same place.