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CGI Cookie Path Question Daniel Kaplan 12-26-2005
Posted by Daniel Kaplan on December 26, 2005, 10:53 am
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Hello All,

All my cookies are created with the path set to "/" and everything was
working fine. The one and only way I set my cookies was the line below.
And I know I have it only once as I keep it in one of my function modules
and call it with a function call.

$q->redirect(-cookie=>$cookies,-uri=>$new_url);

Everything was peechy keen until I started using fullpaths for the $new_url
value (i.e. http://myserver/cgi-bin/loggedon.pl"). The cookie path stayed
the same, "/", but now I was no longer reading them. Once I went back to
calling my function with $new_url no longer having the path, just
"loggedon.pl", everything went back to normal.

I know changing the path within cookie affect who can and can't read them.
But as well, all my cookies are created through the same function call, and
the path is hardcoded to "/".

So it seems to me, that the path from COOKIE is being ignored, and being
replaced with the path from the URI.

Is anyone familiar with anything like this?

Thanks ahead,

Daniel




Posted by Gunnar Hjalmarsson on December 26, 2005, 7:00 pm
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Daniel Kaplan wrote:
> All my cookies are created with the path set to "/" and everything was
> working fine. The one and only way I set my cookies was the line below.
> And I know I have it only once as I keep it in one of my function modules
> and call it with a function call.
>
> $q->redirect(-cookie=>$cookies,-uri=>$new_url);
>
> Everything was peechy keen until I started using fullpaths for the $new_url
> value (i.e. http://myserver/cgi-bin/loggedon.pl").

Are you hardcoding the domain as well? Maybe using something else but
'myserver', e.g. 'www.myserver'?

--
Gunnar Hjalmarsson
Email: http://www.gunnar.cc/cgi-bin/contact.pl


Posted by Daniel Kaplan on December 26, 2005, 6:33 pm
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> Are you hardcoding the domain as well? Maybe using something else but
> 'myserver', e.g. 'www.myserver'?

yes.... as long as I just say "NextScript.pl" and not
http://myswerver.com/cgi-bin/NextScript.pl everything is cool.

Very weird




Posted by Gunnar Hjalmarsson on December 27, 2005, 12:39 am
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Daniel Kaplan wrote:
> Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
>>Are you hardcoding the domain as well? Maybe using something else but
>>'myserver', e.g. 'www.myserver'?
>
> yes....

In that case, try

http://www.myserver.com/cgi-bin/NextScript.pl

> as long as I just say "NextScript.pl" and not
> http://myswerver.com/cgi-bin/NextScript.pl everything is cool.
>
> Very weird

Learn more about cookies at http://www.cookiecentral.com/

--
Gunnar Hjalmarsson
Email: http://www.gunnar.cc/cgi-bin/contact.pl


Posted by Daniel Kaplan on December 26, 2005, 6:54 pm
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> In that case, try
>
> http://www.myserver.com/cgi-bin/NextScript.pl
>

I'll check it out, though I went and changed it all instances to relative
paths as opposed to absolute.

But am curious as to the cause, since from the documentation (as I read it)
does not mention that the path of the URI in calling redirect affects the
path of the cookie.




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