Re: Discouraging the use of HTTP::Cookies
[email protected] (Mark Gardner)
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Another suggestion: submit PRs to port these CPAN dists to use HTTP::CookieJar[::LWP] instead of HTTP::Cookies: https://metacpan.org/requires/distribution/HTTP-Cookies > On Apr 17, 2016, at 9:32 AM, Tom Hukins <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > In November 2015 I gave a talk at London.pm about managing HTTP cookies > in Perl. As a consequence, I sent a documentation patch to the > HTTP::Cookies module to discourage its use: > https://github.com/gisle/http-cookies/pull/7 > > My patch includes a test script demonstrating the module's limitations: > https://github.com/gisle/http-cookies/pull/7/commits/ae00b4ed6aedc1cce72c0e8ddf5e7e8fbba417a8 > > Last week at London.pm's Perl Hack Day I published a Perl::Critic > policy to detect code that uses HTTP::Cookies: > https://metacpan.org/release/Perl-Critic-Policy-HTTPCookies > > I want to share this because it looks like my HTTP::Cookies patch won't > get reviewed or released any time soon. I'd like to encourage readers > to consider using HTTP::CookieJar or HTTP::CookieJar::LWP instead. > > Tom