From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2006-01-27T14:43:44+09:00
Subject: Re: CGI::Cookie.parse problem?

[replying to my own post]

> Looking at the RFC, http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2965.html
> it *seems* to me the above raw_cookie data, conforms to the spec:
> 
>  Informally, the Set-Cookie2 response header comprises the token Set-
>  Cookie2:, followed by a comma-separated list of one or more cookies.
>  Each cookie begins with a NAME=VALUE pair, followed by zero or more
>  semi-colon-separated attribute-value pairs.
> 
> Has anyone else run into this?  I tried Perl's CGI cookie parsing and
> it returned similarly garbled results for this set-cookie data.
> 
> So I'm wondering if it's really a bug?  Or if I'm somehow misusing
> CGI::Cookie.parse() , sending it the wrong format data, or whatever.

Ah... It seems the problem is I'm trying to parse server->client
cookies, which are apparently of a different syntax than 
client->server cookies.

I've written my own simplistic ServerCookie parser to meet my 
current needs.  But, anyone know if a ServerCookie parser already
exists for Ruby?


Thanks,

Bill