i have jumped too far into the bright future of the internet and found RFC 6265 to be an active standards about 50 years too early

lib/landline/util/cookie.rb

@@ -115,6 +115,8 @@ module Landline
 
       data.split(";").map do |cookiestr|
         key, value = cookiestr.match(/([^=]+)=?(.*)/).to_a[1..].map(&:strip)
+        next unless key and value
+
         cookie = Cookie.new(key, value)
         if hash[cookie.key]
           hash[cookie.key].append(cookie)

lib/landline/util/parseutils.rb

@@ -15,12 +15,16 @@ module Landline
       PRINTCHAR = /[\x2-\x7E]/
       # Matches 1 or more CHARs excluding CTLs
       PRINTABLE = /#{PRINTCHAR}+/o
+      # !! RFC 6265 IS PROPOSED AND NOT AN IMPLEMENTED STANDARD YET !!
       # Matches the RFC6265 definition of a cookie-octet
-      COOKIE_OCTET = /[\x21-\x7E&&[^",;\\]]*/
-      COOKIE_VALUE = /(?:#{QUOTED}|#{COOKIE_OCTET})/o
-      COOKIE_NAME = TOKEN
+      # COOKIE_VALUE = /(?:#{QUOTED}|#{COOKIE_OCTET})/o
+      # COOKIE_NAME = TOKEN
       # Matches the RFC6265 definition of cookie-pair.
       # Captures name (1) and value (2).
+      # !! RFC 6265 IS PROPOSED AND NOT AN IMPLEMENTED STANDARD YET !!
+      COOKIE_OCTET = /[\x21-\x7E&&[^",;\\]]*/
+      COOKIE_NAME = /[^;,=\s]*/
+      COOKIE_VALUE = /[^;,\s]*/
       COOKIE_PAIR = /\A(#{COOKIE_NAME})=(#{COOKIE_VALUE})\z/o
       # Matches a very abstract definition of a quoted header paramter.
       # Captures name (1) and value (2).
@@ -83,7 +87,7 @@ module Landline
         unless input.match? HeaderRegexp::PRINTABLE
           raise Landline::ParsingError, "input is not ascii printable"
         end
-        
+
         opts.each do |key, value|
           check_param(key, value)
           newparam = if [String, Integer].include? value.class