Re: [MacPerl] [Q] Netscape Cookie File Format?

[William Neuhauser <willn@quando.com>]

At 6:41 AM -0800 11/30/98, David Emme wrote:
>Can anyone provide or direct me to documentation on the format of a cookie
>entry in this file?

The LWP library contains a module (Cookies.pm) for manipulating cookies, that has these:

=head1 NAME

HTTP::Cookies - Cookie storage and management

=head1 SYNOPSIS

 use HTTP::Cookies;
 $cookie_jar = HTTP::Cookies->new;

 $cookie_jar->add_cookie_header($request);
 $cookie_jar->extract_cookies($response);

=head1 DESCRIPTION

Cookies are a general mechanism which server side connections can use
to both store and retrieve information on the client side of the
connection.  For more information about cookies referrer to
<URL:http://www.netscape.com/newsref/std/cookie_spec.html> and
<URL:http://www.cookiecentral.com/>.  This module also implements the
new style cookies as described in I<draft-ietf-http-state-man-mec-03.txt>.
The two variants of cookies can coexist happily.

Instances of the class I<HTTP::Cookies> are able to store a collection
of Set-Cookie2: and Set-Cookie:-headers and is able to use this
information to initialize Cookie-headers in I<HTTP::Request> objects.
The state of the I<HTTP::Cookies> can be saved and restored from
files.

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Will Neuhauser              willn@quando.com
Chief Technical Officer, VP Development
Quando, Inc.                Tel: 1 (503) 225-1988
520 NW Davis Street         Fax: 1 (503) 225-1987
Portland, OR  97209 USA



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