Apache2::Cookie(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Apache2::Cookie(3)NAME
Apache2::Cookie, Apache2::Cookie::Jar - HTTP Cookies Class
SYNOPSIS
use Apache2::Cookie;
$j = Apache2::Cookie::Jar->new($r);
$c_in = $j->cookies("foo"); # get cookie from request headers
$c_out = Apache2::Cookie->new($r,
-name => "mycookie",
-value => $c_in->name );
$c_out->path("/bar"); # set path to "/bar"
$c_out->bake; # send cookie in response headers
DESCRIPTION
The Apache2::Cookie module is based on the original 1.X versions, which
mimic the CGI::Cookie API. The current version of this module includes
several packages and methods which are patterned after
Apache2::Request, yet remain largely backwards-compatible with the
original 1.X API (see the "PORTING from 1.X" section below for known
issues).
This manpage documents the Apache2::Cookie and Apache2::Cookie::Jar
packages.
Apache2::Cookie::Jar
This class collects Apache2::Cookie objects into a lookup table. It
plays the same role for accessing the incoming cookies as
Apache2::Request does for accessing the incoming params and file
uploads.
new
Apache2::Cookie::Jar->new($env)
Class method that retrieves the parsed cookie jar from the current
environment.
cookies
$jar->cookies()
$jar->cookies($key)
Retrieve cookies named $key with from the jar object. In scalar
context the first such cookie is returned, and in list context the full
list of such cookies are returned.
If the $key argument is omitted, "scalar $jar->cookies()" will return
an APR::Request::Cookie::Table object containing all the cookies in the
jar. Modifications to the this object will affect the jar's internal
cookies table in "apreq_jar_t", so their impact will be noticed by all
libapreq2 applications during this request.
In list context "$jar->cookies()" returns the list of names for all the
cookies in the jar. The order corresponds to the order in which the
cookies appeared in the incoming "Cookie" header.
This method will throw an "APR::Request::Error" object into $@ if the
returned value(s) could be unreliable. In particular, note that
"scalar $jar->cookies("foo")" will not croak if it can locate the a
"foo" cookie within the jar's parsed cookie table, even if the cookie
parser has failed (the cookies are parsed in the same order as they
appeared in the "Cookie" header). In all other circumstances "cookies"
will croak if the parser failed to successfully parse the "Cookie"
header.
$c = Apache2::Cookie->new($r, name => "foo", value => 3);
$j->cookies->add($c);
$cookie = $j->cookies("foo"); # first foo cookie
@cookies = $j->cookies("foo"); # all foo cookies
@names = $j->cookies(); # all cookie names
status
$jar->status()
Get the APR status code of the cookie parser: APR_SUCCESS on success,
error otherwise.
Apache2::Cookie
new
Apache2::Cookie->new($env, %args)
Just like CGI::Cookie::new, but requires an additional environment
argument:
$cookie = Apache2::Cookie->new($r,
-name => 'foo',
-value => 'bar',
-expires => '+3M',
-domain => '.capricorn.com',
-path => '/cgi-bin/database',
-secure => 1
);
The "-value" argument may be either an arrayref, a hashref, or a
string. "Apache2::Cookie::freeze" encodes this argument into the
cookie's raw value.
freeze
Apache2::Cookie->freeze($value)
Helper function (for "new") that serializes a new cookie's value in a
manner compatible with CGI::Cookie (and Apache2::Cookie 1.X). This
class method accepts an arrayref, hashref, or normal perl string in
$value.
$value = Apache2::Cookie->freeze(["2+2", "=4"]);
thaw
Apache2::Cookie->thaw($value)
$cookie->thaw()
This is the helper method (for "value") responsible for decoding the
raw value of a cookie. An optional argument $value may be used in
place of the cookie's raw value. This method can also decode cookie
values created using CGI::Cookie or Apache2::Cookie 1.X.
print $cookie->thaw; # prints "bar"
@values = Apache2::Cookie->thaw($value); # ( "2+2", "=4" )
as_string
$cookie->as_string()
Format the cookie object as a string. The quote-operator for
Apache2::Cookie is overloaded to run this method whenever a cookie
appears in quotes.
ok "$cookie" eq $cookie->as_string;
name
$cookie->name()
Get the name of the cookie.
value
$cookie->value()
Get the (unswizzled) value of the cookie:
my $value = $cookie->value;
my @values = $cookie->value;
Note: if the cookie's value was created using a "freeze" method, one
way to reconstitute the object is by subclassing Apache2::Cookie with a
package that provides the associated "thaw" sub:
{
package My::COOKIE;
@ISA = 'Apache2::Cookie';
sub thaw { my $val = shift->raw_value; $val =~ tr/a-z/A-Z/; $val }
}
bless $cookie, "My::COOKIE";
ok $cookie->value eq "BAR";
raw_value
$cookie->raw_value()
Gets the raw (opaque) value string as it appears in the incoming
"Cookie" header.
ok $cookie->raw_value eq "bar";
bake
$cookie->bake($r)
Adds a Set-Cookie header to the outgoing headers table.
bake2
$cookie->bake2($r)
Adds a Set-Cookie2 header to the outgoing headers table.
domain
$cookie->domain()
$cookie->domain($set)
Get or set the domain for the cookie:
$domain = $cookie->domain;
$cookie->domain(".cp.net");
path
$cookie->path()
$cookie->path($set)
Get or set the path for the cookie:
$path = $cookie->path;
$cookie->path("/");
version
$cookie->version()
$cookie->version($set)
Get or set the cookie version for this cookie. Netscape spec cookies
have version = 0; RFC-compliant cookies have version = 1.
ok $cookie->version == 0;
$cookie->version(1);
ok $cookie->version == 1;
expires
$cookie->expires()
$cookie->expires($set)
Get or set the future expire time for the cookie. When assigning, the
new value ($set) should match /^\+?(\d+)([YMDhms]?)$/ $2 qualifies the
number in $1 as representing "Y"ears, "M"onths, "D"ays, "h"ours,
"m"inutes, or "s"econds (if the qualifier is omitted, the number is
interpreted as representing seconds). As a special case, $set = "now"
is equivalent to $set = "0".
my $expires = $cookie->expires;
$cookie->expires("+3h"); # cookie is set to expire in 3 hours
secure
$cookie->secure()
$cookie->secure($set)
Get or set the secure flag for the cookie:
$cookie->secure(1);
$is_secure = $cookie->secure;
$cookie->secure(0);
httponly
$cookie->httponly()
$cookie->httponly($set)
Get or set the HttpOnly flag for the cookie:
$cookie->httponly(1);
$is_HttpOnly = $cookie->httponly;
$cookie->httponly(0);
httponly
$cookie->httponly()
$cookie->httponly($set)
Get or set the HttpOnly flag for the cookie:
$cookie->httponly(1);
$is_HttpOnly = $cookie->httponly;
$cookie->httponly(0);
comment
$cookie->comment()
$cookie->comment($set)
Get or set the comment field of an RFC (Version > 0) cookie.
$cookie->comment("Never eat yellow snow");
print $cookie->comment;
commentURL
$cookie->commentURL()
$cookie->commentURL($set)
Get or set the commentURL field of an RFC (Version > 0) cookie.
$cookie->commentURL("http://localhost/cookie.policy");
print $cookie->commentURL;
fetch
Apache2::Cookie->fetch($r)
Fetch and parse the incoming Cookie header:
my $cookies = Apache2::Cookie->fetch($r); # APR::Request::Cookie::Table ref
It should be noted, that with perl 5.8+ Iterator magic, table is able
to handle multiple cookies of the same name.
my %cookies = Apache2::Cookie->fetch($r);
PORTING from 1.X
Changes to the 1.X API:
· "Apache2::Cookie::fetch" now expects an $r object as (second)
argument, although this isn't necessary in mod_perl 2 if
"Apache2::RequestUtil" is loaded and 'PerlOptions
+GlobalRequest'
is in effect.
· "Apache2::Cookie::parse" is gone.
· "Apache2::Cookie::new" no longer encodes the supplied cookie name.
· "Apache2::Cookie::new()" returns undef if -value is not specified
or -value => undef.
· "name()" and "value()" no longer accept a "set" argument. In other
words,
neither a cookie's name, nor its value, may be modified.
A new cookie
should be made instead.
SEE ALSO
Apache2::Request, APR::Request::Cookie, APR::Request::Error,
CGI::Cookie(3)COPYRIGHT
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