man Cookie::Baker (3): Cookie string generator / parser

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

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

XS IMPLEMENTATION

This module tries to use Cookie::Baker::XS's crush_cookie by default. If this fails, it will use Cookie::Baker's pure Perl crush_cookie.

There is no XS implementation of bake_cookie yet.

FUNCTION

bake_cookie

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

Generates a cookie string for an HTTP response header. The first argument is the cookie's name and the second argument is a plain string or hash reference that can contain keys such as "value", "domain", "expires", "path", "httponly", "secure", "max-age".

value

Cookie's value

domain

Cookie's domain.

expires

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

path

Cookie's path.

httponly

If true, sets HttpOnly flag. false by default.

secure

If true, sets secure flag. false by default.

crush_cookie

Parses cookie string and returns a hashref.

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

LICENSE

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

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