[ic] [read-cookie] question

[interchange-users@icdevgroup.org (Barry Treahy, Jr.)]

Barry Treahy, Jr. wrote:

> The [set-cookie] ITL supports numerous parameters which control the 
> definition of the cookie, in particular, the path and domain.  I have 
> already set the site to support cookies for the entire domain but I'm 
> seeing cookies defined with various path's which I find odd.  My 
> question is related to the [read-cookie], however.  Is it safe to 
> presume that the read-cookie, since it really has no documented 
> parameters other than the cookie name, will return any cookie that 
> matches on the name, regardless of the original path? 
> If so, then how do I know which cookie will consistently be returned 
> and of not, which is what I would expect, then how to I clearly 
> identify which cookie for which path?  Is this simply an undocumented 
> parameter?

A rudimentary 'Perl' question.  The [set-cookie] document refers to 
itself as set-cookie and set_cookie but the Parse.pm only shows 
set_cookie.  Is the underscore and hyphen INTERCHANGEable ? :-)  If so, 
which is the better 'style?'

Barry

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