[web2py] Re: Issue with length of cookie header

2012-12-03 Thread Massimo Di Pierro
It uses the SimpleCookie.load method. we can make it more resilient at the expense of using our own parser which would be slower. I think we should leave this alone but I will bring this up on web2py-developers. Feel free to join that list. It is public. On Monday, December 3, 2012 6:36:30 PM U

[web2py] Re: Issue with length of cookie header

2012-12-03 Thread Dominic Cioccarelli
Ok, found the issue (probably specific to my environment). One of the cookies seems to be "badly formatted", specifically "lib/pb_server.py" (still trying to find where that one comes from). In web2py main.py, the following code will only load the cookies up to the bad one: #

[web2py] Re: Issue with length of cookie header

2012-12-03 Thread Dominic Cioccarelli
Hi Massimo, sure, the parsing code is as follows: def getCookie(name): cookies = self.request.env.http_cookie.split(';') for cookie in cookies: cookie = cookie.strip() if cookie.startswith(name): temp = cookie.spl

[web2py] Re: Issue with length of cookie header

2012-12-03 Thread Massimo Di Pierro
Can you post your cookie parsing code? It would help us understand the problem. On Monday, 3 December 2012 15:28:12 UTC-6, Dominic Cioccarelli wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have discovered an issue with the way web2py treats the "cookies" > header. Specifically, when the header grows bigger than a ce