From 6d433af4069611bfdf2896b47ae47cd8db72d08e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?L=2E=20K=C3=A4rkk=C3=A4inen?=
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Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2023 18:27:26 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Accept bare cookies

---
 sanic/cookies/request.py | 10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sanic/cookies/request.py b/sanic/cookies/request.py
index 456c887272..7b23e09648 100644
--- a/sanic/cookies/request.py
+++ b/sanic/cookies/request.py
@@ -73,13 +73,15 @@ def parse_cookie(raw: str) -> Dict[str, List[str]]:
     cookies: Dict[str, List[str]] = {}
 
     for token in raw.split(";"):
-        name, __, value = token.partition("=")
+        name, sep, value = token.partition("=")
         name = name.strip()
         value = value.strip()
 
-        if not name:
-            continue
-
+        # Support cookies =value or plain value with no name
+        # https://github.com/httpwg/http-extensions/issues/159
+        if not sep:
+            name, value = "", name
+            
         if COOKIE_NAME_RESERVED_CHARS.search(name):  # no cov
             continue