[Catalyst] Manipulating CGI cookie via Catalyst

Mon Jun 2 07:10:54 BST 2008

Give us the HTTP responses.

On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 2:56 AM,  <sindharta_tanuwijaya at yahoo.co.jp> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I can delete the cookie which was previously set by the Catalyst app
> (testcookie), but I still can't delete the cookie which was previously set
> by the PHP. This is the PHP code:
>
> <?php
> setcookie("id", "sindharta", time() + 3600, "/", ".sin.my.office.com");
> setcookie("session", "blablablablablabla", time() + 3600, "/",
> ".sin.my.office.com");
> echo "cookies...\n";
> print_r($_COOKIE);
> echo "set!";
> ?>
>
> I tried to add
>     $c->response->cookies->{id} = {
>         value => [],
>         expires => time-86400,
>     };
> in your Root/del code but it doesn't work. Only the testcookie got deleted.
>
> Sindharta
>
> sindharta_tanuwijaya at yahoo.co.jp wrote:
>
> Hi Jackson,
>
> Thanks for the source code. I'll be away from my workplace for a few days,
> but I think I'll be back next week, so I'll try your source code and compare
> it with mine at that time.
> I'll let you know how it works.
> Thanks again.
>
> Sindharta
>
> Mitch Jackson <perimus at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Sindharta,
>
> I created a simple test application to set and delete a cookie, and it
> is working as expected. The correct thing is happening in your
> headers: as you roll back the expire time, that is reflected in the
> headers that get sent.
>
> I've posted my test application here:
> http://perimus.com/files/cookietest.tar.bz If this also does not work
> for you, there is some other problem.
>
> Please check the time/date on your server and the time/date on your
> computer. As an example, If your server thinks it's May 28th 2008 but
> your computer thinks it's May 28th 2007, then your browser still
> thinks the requested expiry time of May 27th 2008 02:00 GMT is a year
> in the future and will preserve the cookie.
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> /Mitchell K. Jackson
>
> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 9:25 PM, wrote:
>> Thank you for your response. But I am still having the same problem if I
>> don't use Javascript.
>>
>> I added:
>>
>> $c->delete_session('Logout'); in Root/default
>> $c->res->cookies
>> ->{id} = {
>> value => [],
>> expires => time()-86400,
>> };
>> $c->res->cookies
>> ->{session} = {
>> value => [],
>> expires => time()-86400,
>> };
>>
>> and the Firebug Net log would generate:
>> ----------------------------------
>> Response Headers
>> Connection close
>> Date Wed, 28 May 2008 02:13:04 GMT
>> Content-Length 3345
>> Content-Type text/html; charset=utf-8
>> Set-Cookie catalyst_session=cb50670fae865f6266b0bb2c5b992c88093b8dbe;
>> domain=.shindaru.my.office.com; path=/; expires=Wed, 28-May-2008 02:13:04
>> GMT session=; path=/; expires=Tue, 27-May-2008 02:13:04 GMT id=; path=/;
>> expires=Tue, 27-May-2008 02:13:04 GMT
>> Status 200
>> X-Catalyst 5.7013
>>
>> Request Headers
>> Host shindaru.my.office.com:3000
>> User-Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14)
>> Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14
>> Accept
>>
>> text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
>> Accept-Language en-us,en;q=0.5
>> Accept-Encoding gzip,deflate
>> Accept-Charset ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
>> Keep-Alive 300
>> Connection keep-alive
>> Cookie __utma=175737056.1376894921.1211863250.1211880303.1211937459.4;
>> session=4alqcz3qqey2wkiokonx; id=sindharta;
>>
>> __utmz=175737056.1211863250.1.1.utmccn=(direct)|utmcsr=(direct)|utmcmd=(none);
>> __utma=175737056.1376894921.1211863250.1211880303.1211937459.4
>> Cache-Control max-age=0
>> ----------------------------------
>>
>> But the strange thing is, if I changed the expires into
>> expires => time()+5,
>> the Firebug log would become:
>>
>> -----------------------------------
>> Response Headers
>> Connection close
>> Date Wed, 28 May 2008 02:18:57 GMT
>> Content-Length 3345
>> Content-Type text/html; charset=utf-8
>> Set-Cookie catalyst_session=70ca66db5210730bc63ccb2fdac240543da0f1a0;
>> domain=.shindaru.my.office.com; path=/; expires=Wed, 28-May-2008 02:18:57
>> GMT session=; path=/; expires=Wed, 28-May-2008 02:19:02 GMT id=; path=/;
>> expires=Wed, 28-May-2008 02:19:02 GMT
>> Status 200
>> X-Catalyst 5.7013
>>
>> Request Headers
>> Host shindaru.my.office.com:3000
>> User-Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14)
>> Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14
>> Accept
>>
>> text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
>> Accept-Language en-us,en;q=0.5
>> Accept-Encoding gzip,deflate
>> Accept-Charset ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
>> Keep-Alive 300
>> Connection keep-alive
>> Cookie __utma=175737056.1376894921.1211863250.1211880303.1211937459.4;
>>
>> __utmz=175737056.1211863250.1.1.utmccn=(direct)|utmcsr=(direct)|utmcmd=(none);
>> __utma=175737056.1376894921.1211863250.1211880303.1211937459.4;
>> id=sindharta; session=4alqcz3qqey2wkiokonx; session=; id=
>> Cache-Control max-age=0
>> -----------------------------------
>>
>>
>> Sindharta
>>
>> Gabriel Vieira wrote:
>>
>> You need to understand how Cookies are writed.
>> Thery are HTTP Headers, so you may be giving an outdated value and
>> next the system gives a update value. Javascript writes the Cookies
>> after HTTP process, so the system values are irrelevant to it.
>>
>> Try to use the Catalyst structure to manipulate them instead of trying
>> to make some code.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 11:07 AM, Mitch Jackson wrote:
>>>> delete @{ $c->session }{qw/__user/};
>>>> delete @{ $c->session }{qw/id/};
>>>> delete @{ $c->session }{qw/session/};
>>>
>>> Catalyst::Plugin::Session provides a "delete_session" method
>>> http://search.cpan.org/search?query=catalyst%3A%3Aplugin%3A%3Asession
>>>
>>>> $c->res->cookies
>>>> ->{id} = {
>>>> value => [],
>>>> expires => 0,
>>>> };
>>>> But the cookies just keep appearing, no matter how many times I refresh
>>>> my
>>>> browser. I think there is something wrong, but I just couldn't figure
>>>> out
>>>> where.
>>>
>>> To ask a browser to forget a cookie, the expiry date must be specified
>>> in the past. Try setting expires to time()-86400.
>>>
>>> If you continue to have problems, use Firebug
>>> (http://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/1843) to view the http
>>> headers and see the actual cookie headers received by the browser and
>>> post those here as they are received by the browser.
>>>
>>> Kind Regards,
>>>
>>> /Mitchell K. Jackson
>>>
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>>
>>
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