cookie

[Ajay]

hi!

i am printing a simple cookie, but instead of printing
um=name:blah&access:admin&exp:2312390.909

its printing
um="name:blah&access:admin&exp:2312390.909"

why the quotes?

i am creating the cookie as follows:
data = "user:" + username + "&access:" + access + "&expiry:" + str(expTime)
cookie_digest = hmac.new(key, data).digest()
cookie = Cookie.SimpleCookie()
cookie_data = data + "&digest:" + cookie_digest
cookie["um_cookie"] = cookie_data
cookie["um_cookie"]["path"] = "/~abrar1/hons/interface/admin/"
print cookie

thanks
cheers

 

[John J. Lee]

hi!

i am printing a simple cookie, but instead of printing
um=name:blah&access:admin&exp:2312390.909

its printing
um="name:blah&access:admin&exp:2312390.909"

why the quotes?

Why not?

I don't see how they'd cause any harm.


John

 

[Ajay]

they dont cause any harm, except for a an extra statement removing those
quotes when i read the cookie, parse it and authenticate the session.
the question is - is that normal cookie behaviour?
cookie["test"]="blah"
print cookie

prints test=blah and not test="blah"
so why the quotes when i do the same thing, but use a variable instead of a
string literal?

cheers

 

[John J. Lee]

Why not?

I don't see how they'd cause any harm.

they dont cause any harm, except for a an extra statement removing those
quotes when i read the cookie, parse it and authenticate the session.
the question is - is that normal cookie behaviour?
cookie["test"]="blah"
print cookie

prints test=blah and not test="blah"
so why the quotes when i do the same thing, but use a variable instead of a
string literal?

You've lost me, but on the basis of a very quick test, the Cookie
module preserves quotes across the parse->output cycle:

That seems sensible behaviour to me, since quotes around cookie values
are significant for Netscape cookies (ie. regular, vanilla, internet
cookies).

I can categorically state that using a variable name instead of a
string literal will make no difference whatsoever. I think you're
actually confused about Python syntax rather than the workings of the
Cookie module. Try reading the Python language tutorial at
www.python.org.


John

 

[Ajay]

i am printing a simple cookie, but instead of printing
um=name:blah&access:admin&exp:2312390.909

its printing
um="name:blah&access:admin&exp:2312390.909"

why the quotes?

Why not?

I don't see how they'd cause any harm.

they dont cause any harm, except for a an extra statement removing those
quotes when i read the cookie, parse it and authenticate the session.
the question is - is that normal cookie behaviour?
cookie["test"]="blah"
print cookie

prints test=blah and not test="blah"
so why the quotes when i do the same thing, but use a variable instead of a
string literal?

You've lost me, but on the basis of a very quick test, the Cookie
module preserves quotes across the parse->output cycle:

That seems sensible behaviour to me, since quotes around cookie values
are significant for Netscape cookies (ie. regular, vanilla, internet
cookies).

I can categorically state that using a variable name instead of a
string literal will make no difference whatsoever.

i believe you. i didn't think it would make a difference. and i agree that
the Cookie module preserves quotes across the parse->output cycle
my question is

import Cookie
c = Cookie.SimpleCookie()
c["test"]= "blah"
print c Set-Cookie: test=blah;
c["test"] = "blah" + "testing"
print c Set-Cookie: test=blahtesting;
str = "testing blah"
c["test"] = str
print c

Set-Cookie: test="testing blah";

why does the final print statement have the quotes. Note i haven't put
str='"testing blah"'. if i had done that i would understand the quotes
there.

I think you're
actually confused about Python syntax rather than the workings of the
Cookie module. Try reading the Python language tutorial at
www.python.org.

yes i should probably read that
it doesn't though mention anything about the above behaviour

cheers

 

[John J. Lee]

i believe you. i didn't think it would make a difference. and i agree that
the Cookie module preserves quotes across the parse->output cycle
my question is

import Cookie
c = Cookie.SimpleCookie()
c["test"]= "blah"
print c Set-Cookie: test=blah;
c["test"] = "blah" + "testing"
print c Set-Cookie: test=blahtesting;
str = "testing blah"
c["test"] = str
print c

Set-Cookie: test="testing blah";

why does the final print statement have the quotes. Note i haven't put
str='"testing blah"'. if i had done that i would understand the quotes
there.

Does the following help?

Python 2.4a2 (#5, Aug 5 2004, 22:07:01)
[GCC 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

import Cookie
c = Cookie.SimpleCookie()
c["test"] = "testingblah"
print c Set-Cookie: test=testingblah;
c["test"] = "testing blah"
print c Set-Cookie: test="testing blah";

John

 

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

my question is

import Cookie
c = Cookie.SimpleCookie()
c["test"]= "blah"
print c Set-Cookie: test=blah;
c["test"] = "blah" + "testing"
print c Set-Cookie: test=blahtesting;
str = "testing blah"
c["test"] = str
print c

Set-Cookie: test="testing blah";

why does the final print statement have the quotes. Note i haven't put
str='"testing blah"'. if i had done that i would understand the quotes
there.

It's no difference if you bind the string to a name or assign it directly,
it's the contents of the string:

import Cookie
c = Cookie.SimpleCookie()
c["test"] = "spaceless"
print c Set-Cookie: test=spaceless;
c["test"] = "not spaceless"
print c

Set-Cookie: test="not spaceless";

Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch