Thanks Ian
It occurred to me after I send the original email that the space may be escaped with a +. It's not clear to me whether spaces are permitted in cookie values - I found different web pages that seemed to contradict each other. Resorting to the regex replace works - and I'm happy with the workaround as long as the + is a result of escaping and nothing else. The weird thing is, if I set what seems to be the same Cookie with CGI, then Apache::Cookie reads it correctly.
All the best
Dan
| idstewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
22/10/2004 17:19
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Apache::Cookie seems to read different Cookie than CGI |
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi All
I have to read a domain cookie set by a ColdFusion Web Server on a different host. CF sets a cookie value like
[EMAIL PROTECTED]|2004-10-22 16:16:41|70DC39BB99CB4CB826E3F30AA25D97FE
I can read this cookie with CGI.pm, and it seems to identical. When I try to get the same cookie value using Apache::Cookie, it gets returned as
[EMAIL PROTECTED]|2004-10-22+16:16:41|70DC39BB99CB4CB826E3F30AA25D97FE
Note the '+' between the date and time. Unfortunately, this breaks everything, as I need the first two pipe delimited values to hash to the third value (using a key in addition to this). Does anyone know why this would happen, and if there is a workaround?
If I were to hazard a guess, I would say that Apache::Cookie is URL encoding the cookie. If you URL decode the value returned from Apache::Cookie, you should get the same value that is being reported by CGI.pm and Cold Fusion.
As a poor man's URL decode, you could try something like:
$cookie =~ s/+/ /g;
This will replace the '+' with a space in the value returned by Apache::Cookie and leave the value returned by CGI.pm unaffected.
HTH.
Ian
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