From: Frank Fejes <frank@...>
Date: 2003-03-07T06:34:17+09:00
Subject: Re: cookies in eruby mod_ruby

On Fri, 07 Mar 2003 05:17:20 +0900, Daniel Bretoi wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 01:33:29AM +0900, Frank Fejes wrote:
>> ERuby.noheader will tell eruby to not output headers on its own since
>> we'll want to write them yourself.  Later on in the script for the headers
>> display you will need to replace that portion too since, again, the Apache
>> object is not around in cgi land.
> 
> If I leave it with it's own headers, will it be interfering with mine?

I believe it will, however check it for yourself.  Either way, you don't
need this new block since you'll be running with mod_ruby and can use
the Apache request object.

>> Either way, the original message should be just fine since you wanted
>> mod_ruby assistance in the first place. ;)
> 
> 
> Indeed :) One more question, expiration and deletion?

My first post explained how to delete:

> to delete a cookie you'd just set another cookie with the same
> variable and path but with an expiration date in the past.

For expiration, you need to use the rfc 1123 date format.  I require 'cgi'
since it includes the very useful CGI::rfc1123_date class method.  It
converts a Time instance into the format that the cookie string uses.
From my first post:

> ed = CGI.rfc1123_date(Time.now + (60 * 60 * 24 * 365))

That will return a date string of one year from now (60 seconds * 60
minutes * 24 hours * 365 days).  If you want an expiration date in the
past, just do something like:

ed = CGI.rfc1123_date(Time.now - (60 * 60 * 24 * 365))

Have fun!

--frank