NAME

       cgi_cookie_authority  - determine the cookie authority for a domain

SYNOPSIS

       #include <cgi/cgi.h>

       char *cgi_cookie_authority (CGI *cgi, const char *host);

ARGUMENTS

       cgi - a CGI struct
       host - optional host to match against.  If NULL, the function
       will use the HTTP.Host HDF variable.

DESCRIPTION

       cgi_cookie_authority  will  walk  the  CookieAuthority  portion  of  the CGI HDF data set, and return the
       matching domain if it exists.  The purpose of this is so that  you  set  domain  specific  cookies.   For
       instance,  you  might have CookieAuthority.0 = neotonic.com In which case, any webserver using a hostname
       ending in neotonic.com will generate a cookie authority of neotonic.com.

RETURN VALUE

       None

SEE ALSO

       cgi_debug_init(3),   cgi_parse(3),    cgi_destroy(3),    cgi_js_escape(3),    cgi_html_escape_strfunc(3),
       cgi_register_strfuncs(3),    cgi_output(3),    parse_rfc2388(3),   cgi_url_validate(3),   open_upload(3),
       cgi_cs_init(3),  cgi_url_escape_more(3),  cgi_html_strip_strfunc(3),  cgi_neo_error(3),  cgi_redirect(3),
       cgi_filehandle(3),   cgi_register_parse_cb(3),   cgi_url_escape(3),   cgi_init(3),   cgi_redirect_uri(3),
       cgi_cookie_clear(3),   cgi_url_unescape(3),   cgi_vredirect(3),   cgi_display(3),   cgi_html_ws_strip(3),
       cgi_error(3), cgi_cookie_set(3), cgi_text_html_strfunc(3), cgi_cookie_authority

ClearSilver                                       12 July 2007                           cgi_cookie_authority(3)