Class CGI::Cookie
In: lib/cgi.rb
Parent: DelegateClass(Array)

Class representing an HTTP cookie.

In addition to its specific fields and methods, a Cookie instance is a delegator to the array of its values.

See RFC 2965.

Examples of use

  cookie1 = CGI::Cookie::new("name", "value1", "value2", ...)
  cookie1 = CGI::Cookie::new("name" => "name", "value" => "value")
  cookie1 = CGI::Cookie::new('name'    => 'name',
                             'value'   => ['value1', 'value2', ...],
                             'path'    => 'path',   # optional
                             'domain'  => 'domain', # optional
                             'expires' => Time.now, # optional
                             'secure'  => true      # optional
                            )

  cgi.out("cookie" => [cookie1, cookie2]) { "string" }

  name    = cookie1.name
  values  = cookie1.value
  path    = cookie1.path
  domain  = cookie1.domain
  expires = cookie1.expires
  secure  = cookie1.secure

  cookie1.name    = 'name'
  cookie1.value   = ['value1', 'value2', ...]
  cookie1.path    = 'path'
  cookie1.domain  = 'domain'
  cookie1.expires = Time.now + 30
  cookie1.secure  = true

Methods

new   parse   secure=   to_s  

Attributes

domain  [RW] 
expires  [RW] 
name  [RW] 
path  [RW] 
secure  [R] 
value  [RW] 

Public Class methods

new(name = "", *value)

Create a new CGI::Cookie object.

The contents of the cookie can be specified as a name and one or more value arguments. Alternatively, the contents can be specified as a single hash argument. The possible keywords of this hash are as follows:

name:the name of the cookie. Required.
value:the cookie‘s value or list of values.
path:the path for which this cookie applies. Defaults to the base directory of the CGI script.
domain:the domain for which this cookie applies.
expires:the time at which this cookie expires, as a Time object.
secure:whether this cookie is a secure cookie or not (default to false). Secure cookies are only transmitted to HTTPS servers.

These keywords correspond to attributes of the cookie object.

[Source]

     # File lib/cgi.rb, line 794
794:     def initialize(name = "", *value)
795:       options = if name.kind_of?(String)
796:                   { "name" => name, "value" => value }
797:                 else
798:                   name
799:                 end
800:       unless options.has_key?("name")
801:         raise ArgumentError, "`name' required"
802:       end
803: 
804:       @name = options["name"]
805:       @value = Array(options["value"])
806:       # simple support for IE
807:       if options["path"]
808:         @path = options["path"]
809:       else
810:         %r|^(.*/)|.match(ENV["SCRIPT_NAME"])
811:         @path = ($1 or "")
812:       end
813:       @domain = options["domain"]
814:       @expires = options["expires"]
815:       @secure = options["secure"] == true ? true : false
816: 
817:       super(@value)
818:     end
parse(raw_cookie)

Parse a raw cookie string into a hash of cookie-name=>Cookie pairs. 

  cookies = CGI::Cookie::parse("raw_cookie_string")
    # { "name1" => cookie1, "name2" => cookie2, ... }

[Source]

     # File lib/cgi.rb, line 870
870:   def Cookie::parse(raw_cookie)
871:     cookies = Hash.new([])
872:     return cookies unless raw_cookie
873: 
874:     raw_cookie.split(/[;,]\s?/).each do |pairs|
875:       name, values = pairs.split('=',2)
876:       next unless name and values
877:       name = CGI::unescape(name)
878:       values ||= ""
879:       values = values.split('&').collect{|v| CGI::unescape(v) }
880:       if cookies.has_key?(name)
881:         values = cookies[name].value + values
882:       end
883:       cookies[name] = Cookie::new({ "name" => name, "value" => values })
884:     end
885: 
886:     cookies
887:   end

Public Instance methods

secure=(val)

Set whether the Cookie is a secure cookie or not.

val must be a boolean.

[Source]

     # File lib/cgi.rb, line 826
826:     def secure=(val)
827:       @secure = val if val == true or val == false
828:       @secure
829:     end
to_s()

Convert the Cookie to its string representation.

[Source]

     # File lib/cgi.rb, line 832
832:     def to_s
833:       buf = ""
834:       buf += @name + '='
835: 
836:       if @value.kind_of?(String)
837:         buf += CGI::escape(@value)
838:       else
839:         buf += @value.collect{|v| CGI::escape(v) }.join("&")
840:       end
841: 
842:       if @domain
843:         buf += '; domain=' + @domain
844:       end
845: 
846:       if @path
847:         buf += '; path=' + @path
848:       end
849: 
850:       if @expires
851:         buf += '; expires=' + CGI::rfc1123_date(@expires)
852:       end
853: 
854:       if @secure == true
855:         buf += '; secure'
856:       end
857: 
858:       buf
859:     end

[Validate]