https and cookies

Krister Wicksell Eriksson <[email protected]> Thu, 27 Feb 2003 13:54:31 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lib.libwww
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hi!

I am using libwww to access pages over https. The pages contains cookies and I 
need to read them to make it work.

I can't get cookies to work when using https with libwww-5.4.0 so i have 
written a small patch to HTCookie.c which will enable cookies for https. The 
patch also allow cookies with empty values, e.g. name=;

Is there a better way to get cookies to work with https that not includes 
patching the libwww source?

Have attached my small patch against HTCookie.c.

/Krister

w3c-libwww-5.4.0-cookie.patch (text/x-diff, 1.2 KB)

--- w3c-libwww-5.4.0/Library/src/HTCookie.c	1999-07-31 03:30:16.000000000 +0200
+++ w3c-libwww-5.4.0-patch/Library/src/HTCookie.c	2003-02-19 12:29:48.000000000 +0100
@@ -250,11 +250,11 @@ PRIVATE int HTCookie_parseSetCookie (HTR
 				     char * token, char * value)
 
 {
-    char * cookie_name = HTNextField(&value);
-    char * cookie_value = HTNextField(&value);
+    char * param_pair = HTNextParam(&value);
+    char * cookie_name = HTNextField(&param_pair);
+    char * cookie_value = param_pair;
     if (cookie_name && *cookie_name && cookie_value) {
 	HTCookie * cookie = HTCookie_new();
-	char * param_pair;
 
 	HTCookie_setName(cookie, cookie_name);
 	HTCookie_setValue(cookie, cookie_value);
@@ -389,7 +389,9 @@ PUBLIC BOOL HTCookie_init (void)
 
 	/* Register the cookie before and after filters */
 	HTNet_addBefore(HTCookie_beforeFilter, "http://*", NULL, HT_FILTER_MIDDLE);
+	HTNet_addBefore(HTCookie_beforeFilter, "https://*", NULL, HT_FILTER_MIDDLE);	
 	HTNet_addAfter(HTCookie_afterFilter, "http://*", NULL, HT_ALL, HT_FILTER_MIDDLE);
+	HTNet_addAfter(HTCookie_afterFilter, "https://*", NULL, HT_ALL, HT_FILTER_MIDDLE);
 
 	baking_cookies = YES;
 	return YES;