[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #41937: Change name of "wp-settings-" and "wp-settings-time-" cookie

[WordPress Trac]

#41937: Change name of "wp-settings-" and "wp-settings-time-" cookie
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 Reporter:  Neustradamus              |       Owner:  petertoi
     Type:  enhancement               |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal                    |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Users                     |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                    |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  good-first-bug has-patch  |     Focuses:
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Comment (by Clorith):

 I would just like to drop a consideration here that may or may not affect
 cache solutions.

 Tools, such as Varnish at least, will read the existence of a cookie as a
 call to not cache a page by default. It's therefore common to add in rules
 to filter out certain cookies, in which you need to know what those
 cookies are.

 If we start making cookie prefixes dynamic, we may essentially be
 invalidating many caching solutions which would impact site performances.

 (This may not be an issue, but without knowing the cache configs everyone
 uses we can't make certain, and as such need to be careful about these
 kind of changes)

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