What are allowed characters in cookies?

Question

What are the allowed characters in both cookie name and value? Are they same as URL or some common subset?

Reason I\'m asking is that I\'ve recently hit some strange

Answer 1

There is another interesting issue with IE and Edge. Cookies that have names with more than 1 period seem to be silently dropped. So This works:

cookie_name_a=valuea

while this will get dropped

cookie.name.a=valuea