Issue with redefined SimpleCookie with invalid cookie name

[Stefano Crosta <stefano@…>]

To provoke the error:

from django.http import HttpResponse
response= HttpResponse()
response.set_cookie("a:.b/",1)


> AttributeError: 'SimpleCookie' object has no attribute 'bad_cookies' 

with a python version that does not accept colons (":") in the cookie name.

Django http/init.py redefines the SimpleCookie, and initializes bad_cookies in a method load(self, rawdata) that does not seem to be called in this case.

Beside the obvious fact that the cookie name is totally invalid, it looks like bad_cookies is not correctly initialized (I wouldn't mind an error, but a real one!)

Or am I using set_cookie uncorrectly here?