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Summary:
QuickTime X do not honor the Set-Cookie HTTP header of the response it receives.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Look/create for a HTTP server that sets a cookie for the client with the first request of a HTTP Live Streaming request for the m3u8 file.
2. Point QuickTime X to the URL of that m3u8 file.
3. QuickTime X will request the file, and will ignore all Set-Cookie headers sent by the server.
4. Next requests (to the same m3u8 or to the MPEG segments) do not include the Cookie header with the value provided by the server.

Expected Results:
QuickTime X should honor the Set-Cookie headers sent by the server.

Actual Results:
QuickTime X ignores the Set-Cookie headers sent by the server.
QuickTime X does send (some) Cookie headers if some other application has received them (for example Safari), but not always: I have two Cookies in Safari for localhost, but Quicktime X only sent one of them (always the same one).

Regression: N/A

Notes:

This is a HTTP conversation between QuickTime X and a local HTTP server. QuickTime start requesting the m3u8 two times (those two are identical, but QuickTime should include a Cookie header in the second one), and finally it starts requesting the MPEG segment.

>>>>>
GET /v HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:9393
Range: bytes=0-1
Connection: close
User-Agent: Apple Mac OS X v10.6.1 CoreMedia v1.0.0.10B504
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: identity

>>>>>
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HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Connection: close
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:06:12 GMT
Content-Type: application/vnd.apple.mpegurl
Content-Length: 240
Set-Cookie: rack.session=BAh7BiIGdmkG%0A; path=/

#EXTM3U
#EXT-X-TARGETDURATION:10
#EXT-X-MEDIA-SEQUENCE:1
#EXTINF:10
http://localhost:9393/ts/sample_ep_512k-00001.ts
#EXTINF:10
http://localhost:9393/ts/sample_ep_512k-00002.ts
#EXTINF:10
http://localhost:9393/ts/sample_ep_512k-00003.ts
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>>>>>
GET /v HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:9393
Connection: close
User-Agent: Apple Mac OS X v10.6.1 CoreMedia v1.0.0.10B504
Accept: */*

>>>>>
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HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Connection: close
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:06:13 GMT
Content-Type: application/vnd.apple.mpegurl
Content-Length: 240
Set-Cookie: rack.session=BAh7BiIGdmkG%0A; path=/

#EXTM3U
#EXT-X-TARGETDURATION:10
#EXT-X-MEDIA-SEQUENCE:1
#EXTINF:10
http://localhost:9393/ts/sample_ep_512k-00001.ts
#EXTINF:10
http://localhost:9393/ts/sample_ep_512k-00002.ts
#EXTINF:10
http://localhost:9393/ts/sample_ep_512k-00003.ts
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>>>>>
GET /ts/sample_ep_512k-00001.ts HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:9393
Connection: keep-alive
User-Agent: Apple Mac OS X v10.6.1 CoreMedia v1.0.0.10B504
Accept: */*

>>>>>
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HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Connection: close
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:06:14 GMT
Last-Modified: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:49:36 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 984932
Set-Cookie: rack.session=BAh7AA%3D%3D%0A; path=/

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