Cookie Maker

Category:	CGI Programming
Author/Contact Info	isotope@skylab.org
Description:	I use this CGI script every time I have to do some work with cookies. It can be used to set completely arbitrary cookies, and to renew, edit, or delete existing cookies. I wrote it a long time ago, so please excuse the newbie flavor to it. Maybe I'll work on an update soon. Consider it covered by the GPL.
#!/usr/local/bin/perl $\| = 1; use CGI qw(:form); use URI::Escape; my $query = new CGI; my $name = $query->param('name'); if ($name eq "") { form(); } else { my $value = $query->param('value'); my $exp = $query->param('exp'); if ($query->param('cookie_action') eq "Delete") { $exp = "-1d"; } my $path = $query->param('path'); my $cookie = $query->cookie(-name=>$name, -value=>$value, -expires=>$exp, -path=>$path); print $query->header(-cookie=>$cookie, -expires=>'-1d', -location=>'cookie.cgi'); print <<"End"; <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Cookie maker</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"> <FONT SIZE="+2"><A HREF="cookie.cgi">Refresh</A></FONT><BR> </BODY> </HTML> End } sub form { print $query->header(-expires=>'-1d'); print <<"End"; <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Cookie Maker</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"> <H1>Please enter your cookie parameters</H1> <FORM ACTION="cookie.cgi" METHOD="GET"> <INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="path" VALUE="/cgi-bin/"> Path<BR> <INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="name" VALUE=""> Cookie Name<BR> <INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="value" VALUE=""> Cookie Value<BR> <INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="exp" VALUE="+3M"> Expiration date<BR> <INPUT TYPE="submit" NAME="cookie_action" VALUE="Make cookie"> </FORM> <BR> End mycookies(); print <<"End"; </BODY> </HTML> End } sub mycookies { print "Your cookies:\n"; print "<TABLE BGCOLOR=\"#FFFF00\" BORDER=\"1\">\n"; print "<TR><TH>Name</TH><TH>Value</TH><TH>Cookie Path</TH><TH>Rene +wal Date</TH><TH>Action</TH></TR>\n"; my @cookies = split(/\; /, $ENV{'HTTP_COOKIE'}); foreach my $cookie (@cookies) { $cookie = uri_unescape($cookie); my ($name, $value) = split(/=/,$cookie); print "<TR>\n"; print "<FORM ACTION=\"cookie.cgi\" METHOD=\"GET\">\n"; print "<INPUT TYPE=\"hidden\" NAME=\"name\" VALUE=\"$name\">\n +"; print "<INPUT TYPE=\"hidden\" NAME=\"value\" VALUE=\"$value\"> +\n"; print "<TD>$name</TD>\n"; print "<TD>$value</TD>\n"; print "<TD><INPUT TYPE=\"text\" NAME=\"path\" VALUE=\"/cgi-bin +/\"></TD>\n"; print "<TD><INPUT TYPE=\"text\" NAME=\"exp\" VALUE=\"+3M\"></T +D>\n"; print "<TD><INPUT TYPE=\"submit\" NAME=\"cookie_action\" VALUE +=\"Renew\"><INPUT TYPE=\"submit\" NAME=\"cookie_action\" VALUE=\"Dele +te\"></TD>\n"; print "</FORM>\n"; print "</TR>\n"; } print "</TABLE>\n"; }

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RE: Cookie Maker by joe (Acolyte) on Oct 17, 2000 at 04:59 UTC
Thanks isotope. very handy. One question though... How can you get the "path" and "expiration" from a cookie? Are they even sent down with a request? They don't show up even with CGI::raw_cookie.	[reply]
RE: RE: Cookie Maker by isotope (Deacon) on Oct 17, 2000 at 19:43 UTC
`path` and `expiration` are used internally by the browser. They are not transmitted to the server. Only the name/value pair for each cookie is actually sent to the server. --isotope http://www.skylab.org/~isotope/	[reply]


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