Re: Cookie processing in Fast CGI

Check out:

Http 1.0 master -
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/1.0/draft-ietf-http-spec.html

Http 1.1 master - http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616.html

Martin


-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Bowden [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 1:17 PM
To: Rob Lemley
Cc: Martin Chapman; 'FastCGI Developers'
Subject: Re: [FASTCGI] Cookie processing in Fast CGI

The two rfc's you mention below are for Set-Cookie and Set-Cookie2.   
I presume the Set-Cookie2 is for sending multiple cookies in one  
header?  Is that widely accepted?

Also -- do you know which RFC includes the Content-Disposition spec?


On Dec 9, 2009, at 6:24 PM, Rob Lemley wrote:

> I'd recommend having rfc2109 and rfc2965 handy.
>
> Also note that the Content-Disposition header is very similar to the
> Cookie header, ie would be common code.
>
> Rob
>
>
> Tom Bowden wrote:
>> will post with pleasure.  Thanks!
>>
>> Tom
>>
>> On Dec 9, 2009, at 3:02 PM, Martin Chapman wrote:
>>
>>> Tom,
>>>
>>> It's a little ugly because it's COM and if you convert it to  
>>> FastCGI it
>>> would be cool if you posted it back for the rest of us if you  
>>> can.  The
>>> entire COM implementation is attached.
>>>
>>> General Gist:
>>>
>>> 1. Get the cookie from the env vars.  Should be called HTTP_COOKIE.
>>>
>>> 2. Use a method like the one below to parse the cookie value.
>>>
>>> STDMETHODIMP CCookie::ParseValue(BSTR sCookie)
>>> {
>>>     AFX_MANAGE_STATE(AfxGetStaticModuleState());
>>>
>>>     _bstr_t bstrCookie(sCookie);
>>>     if (bstrCookie.length() == 0)
>>>         return E_INVALIDARG;
>>>
>>>     CString strCookie = (TCHAR*) bstrCookie;
>>>     LPCSTR pEnd = strCookie;
>>>     LPCSTR pStart = strCookie;
>>>     CString name, value;
>>>
>>>     while (*pEnd != '\0')
>>>     {
>>>         while (*pEnd && *pEnd != '=' && *pEnd != '&')
>>>             pEnd++;
>>>
>>>         if (*pEnd == '\0' || *pEnd == '&')
>>>         {
>>>             if (pEnd > pStart)
>>>             {
>>>                 CopyToCString(value, pStart, pEnd);
>>>             }
>>>             put_Value(_bstr_t(value.GetBuffer()));
>>>             if (*pEnd == '&')
>>>             {
>>>                 pEnd++;
>>>                 pStart = pEnd;
>>>                 continue;
>>>             }
>>>             return S_OK;
>>>         }
>>>         else if (*pEnd == '=' )
>>>         {
>>>             if (pEnd > pStart)
>>>             {
>>>                 CopyToCString(name, pStart, pEnd);
>>>             }
>>>             else
>>>             {
>>>                 pEnd++;
>>>                 pStart = pEnd;
>>>                 break;
>>>             }
>>>
>>>             pEnd++;
>>>             pStart = pEnd;
>>>             while (*pEnd && *pEnd != '&' && *pEnd != '=')
>>>                 pEnd++;
>>>             if (pEnd > pStart)
>>>                 CopyToCString(value, pStart, pEnd);
>>>
>>>             AddValue(_bstr_t(name.GetBuffer()),
>>> _bstr_t(value.GetBuffer()));
>>>             if (*pEnd != '\0')
>>>                 pEnd++;
>>>
>>>             pStart = pEnd;
>>>         }
>>>     }
>>>
>>>     return S_OK;
>>> }
>>>
>>> 3. The following func parses a single cookie value and is used in  
>>> the
>>> func
>>> above.
>>>
>>> STDMETHODIMP CCookie::ParseValue(BSTR sCookie)
>>> {
>>>     AFX_MANAGE_STATE(AfxGetStaticModuleState());
>>>
>>>     _bstr_t bstrCookie(sCookie);
>>>     if (bstrCookie.length() == 0)
>>>         return E_INVALIDARG;
>>>
>>>     CString strCookie = (TCHAR*) bstrCookie;
>>>     LPCSTR pEnd = strCookie;
>>>     LPCSTR pStart = strCookie;
>>>     CString name, value;
>>>
>>>     while (*pEnd != '\0')
>>>     {
>>>         while (*pEnd && *pEnd != '=' && *pEnd != '&')
>>>             pEnd++;
>>>
>>>         if (*pEnd == '\0' || *pEnd == '&')
>>>         {
>>>             if (pEnd > pStart)
>>>             {
>>>                 CopyToCString(value, pStart, pEnd);
>>>             }
>>>             put_Value(_bstr_t(value.GetBuffer()));
>>>             if (*pEnd == '&')
>>>             {
>>>                 pEnd++;
>>>                 pStart = pEnd;
>>>                 continue;
>>>             }
>>>             return S_OK;
>>>         }
>>>         else
>>>         if (*pEnd == '=' )
>>>         {
>>>             if (pEnd > pStart)
>>>             {
>>>                 CopyToCString(name, pStart, pEnd);
>>>             }
>>>             else
>>>             {
>>>                 pEnd++;
>>>                 pStart = pEnd;
>>>                 break;
>>>             }
>>>
>>>             pEnd++;
>>>             pStart = pEnd;
>>>             while (*pEnd && *pEnd != '&' && *pEnd != '=')
>>>                 pEnd++;
>>>             if (pEnd > pStart)
>>>                 CopyToCString(value, pStart, pEnd);
>>>
>>>             AddValue(_bstr_t(name.GetBuffer()),
>>> _bstr_t(value.GetBuffer()));
>>>             if (*pEnd != '\0')
>>>                 pEnd++;
>>>
>>>             pStart = pEnd;
>>>         }
>>>     }
>>>
>>>     return S_OK;
>>> }
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
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>>>
>>> On Behalf Of Tom Bowden
>>> Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 1:18 PM
>>> To: FastCGI Developers
>>> Subject: [FASTCGI] Cookie processing in Fast CGI
>>>
>>> Is there a thread somewhere that talks about parsing cookies -  
>>> or, is
>>> this something that I have to treat like any other header parsing  
>>> task.
>>>
>>> Tom
>>>
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