[ic] [read-cookie] question

[interchange-users@icdevgroup.org (Dan Browning)]

At 09:57 AM 9/6/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>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 ? :-)

Yes.  This was a 4.7.x feature addition I believe.

>If so, which is the better 'style?'

Personal opinion?  :-)

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