Set-Cookie with discard in a perl CGI?

[Norman Ackroyd]

I've got a CGI script that is going to set a cookie and I would like
to be able to use some of the attributes specified in RFC2965
(ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2965.txt) such as "discard" . CGI.pm
appears to only support cookie attributes specified in the original
"HTTP State Management Mechanism" - RFC2109 document. Besides building
my response from scratch and a Socket connect, are there any cgi
modules out there that will do this?

Thanks,
Norm Ackroyd

 

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

I've got a CGI script that is going to set a cookie and I would
like to be able to use some of the attributes specified in RFC2965
(ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2965.txt) such as "discard" . CGI.pm
appears to only support cookie attributes specified in the
original "HTTP State Management Mechanism" - RFC2109 document.

If that's the case, it's not very difficult to print the cookie
'manually':

print "Set-cookie: name=value; path=/; otherattr\n";

Then you can include whichever attributes you believe the browsers
will understand.

Of course, depending on what the cookie may contain, you may need to
URI escape it.

Besides building my response from scratch and a Socket connect,
?

are there any cgi modules out there that will do this?

A search at CPAN should give you the answer to that question.

 

[Gregory Toomey]

?

Indeed. You dont need to open a socket to print to stdout!

gtoomey