cookie setting

[Dave Harrison]

ahem,

setting clear text in the cookie is simple, however I dont want clear text there, I want something a little less obviously decipherable.

I assume this is what encode and decode are meant to do ? (I could be wrong) ...

if my code as below is not how its meant to work can someone correct me ?

Dave

John J. Lee (jjl at pobox.com):
> Dave Harrison <dave at nullcube.com> writes:
> [...]
> > (1) How to I get rid of a users cookie ? Best I can think of at the
> > moment is setting the expire time to the current time and having it
> > expire that way.
> 
> http://www.netscape.com/newsref/std/cookie_spec.html
> 
> |   * If a CGI script wishes to delete a cookie, it can do so by
> |   returning a cookie with the same name, and an expires time which
> |   is in the past. The path and name must match exactly in order for
> |   the expiring cookie to replace the valid cookie. This requirement
> |   makes it difficult for anyone but the originator of a cookie to
> |   delete a cookie.
> 
> 
> > (2) Why when I use the following code am I getting an output tuple
> > of ('123', '123') ?
> [...]
> > P.S Here is my cookie setting code as well :
> > 
> > c = Cookie.SimpleCookie()
> > c['3802Cookie'] = c.value_encode('123')
> [...]
> 
> I don't think that's right.
> 
> c['3802Cookie'] = '123'
> 
> 
> John
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