> The Cookie session is encoded with gob Encode. It should only contain plain text strings right?
No. Where did you get that idea? See https://pkg.go.dev/encoding/gob#hdr-Encoding_Details On Fri, Jul 21, 2023 at 3:32 PM Tong Sun <suntong...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Gophers, > > I'm facing a very weird error: > > func getUserName(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) string { > c, err := r.Cookie("session") > if err != nil { > http.Redirect(w, r, rootUrl, http.StatusSeeOther) > return "" > } > log.Println("session raw", c.Value) > > var s session > fmt.Printf("%+v\n", s) > reader := strings.NewReader(c.Value) > if err := gob.NewDecoder(reader).Decode(&s); err != nil { > log.Println(err) > http.Error(w, "server error: gob decoding", http.StatusInternalServerError) > return "" > } > > return s.Name // userName > } > > With the above code, I'm getting the following: > > 2023/07/21 18:11:00 net/http: invalid byte '\x7f' in Cookie.Value; > dropping invalid bytes > 2023/07/21 18:11:00 session raw &sessionNameTextA > {Name: Text:} > 2023/07/21 18:11:00 unexpected EOF > > The Cookie session is encoded with gob Encode. It should only contain > plain text strings right? So where does the problem come from? > > The whole program is at: > > https://github.com/suntong/lang/blob/master/lang/Go/src/net/HttpD/demo-redirect.go > > The recent change that got me into the problem is: > > https://github.com/suntong/lang/commit/ee5adac80edaf3b8d04e483b2257786268d5250f > > Please help. Thx. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/13e154d0-d456-4e56-84f3-b28ad734d633n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/13e154d0-d456-4e56-84f3-b28ad734d633n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Kurtis Rader Caretaker of the exceptional canines Junior and Hank -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CABx2%3DD8vQv9550s1koyQpaTew9RA57%3DMRnav2Gj4zk9-JvyR-w%40mail.gmail.com.
