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Cookie::Baker

Cookie string generator / parser

    use Cookie::Baker;
    $headers->push_header('Set-Cookie', bake_cookie($key,$val));
    my $cookies_hashref = crush_cookie($headers->header('Cookie'));

Cookie::Baker provides simple cookie string generator and parser.

  my $cookie = bake_cookie('foo','val');
  my $cookie = bake_cookie('foo', {
      value => 'val',
      path => "test",
      domain => '.example.com',
      expires => '+24h'
  } );

Generates cookie string for HTTP response header. First argument is cookies' name and seconds argument is plain string or hash reference that can contain keys such as "value", "domain", "expires", "path", "httponly", "secure", "max-age".

Cookie's value
Cookie's domain.
Cookie's expires date time. several formats are supported 

  expires => time + 24 * 60 * 60 # epoch time
  expires => 'Wed, 03-Nov-2010 20:54:16 GMT' 
  expires => '+30s' # 30 seconds from now
  expires => '+10m' # ten minutes from now
  expires => '+1h'  # one hour from now 
  expires => '-1d'  # yesterday (i.e. "ASAP!")
  expires => '+3M'  # in three months
  expires => '+10y' # in ten years time
  expires => 'now'  #immediately
Cookie's path.
If true, give HttpOnly flag. false by default.
If true, give secure flag. false by default.
Parses cookie string and returns hashref. 

    my $cookies_hashref = crush_cookie($headers->header('Cookie'));
    my $cookie_value = $cookies_hashref->{cookie_name}

CPAN already has many cookie related modules. But there is not simple cookie string generator and parser modules.

CGI, CGI::Simple, Plack, Dancer::Cookie

Copyright (C) Masahiro Nagano.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

Masahiro Nagano <kazeburo@gmail.com>