[mod_python] Cookie documentation, small correction

Graham Dumpleton grahamd at dscpl.com.au
Mon Mar 28 23:23:59 EST 2005


Can you submit this at:

  http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MODPYTHON

It will be lost in the mailing list archives otherwise.

Thanks.

Vivian De Smedt wrote ..
> Dear mod_python developper,
> 
>  I just want notify you a small mistakes the Cookie module documentation.
> The sample section use the get_cookie api instead of the get_cookies one.
> In consequence the following section:
> 
>     from mod_python import apache, Cookie
> 
>     def handler(req):
> 
>         cookies = Cookie.get_cookie(req, Cookie.MarshalCookie,
>                                         secret='secret007')
>         if cookies.has_key('spam'):
>             spamcookie = cookies['spam']
> 
>             req.write('Great, a spam cookie was found: %s\n' \
>                                           % str(spamcookie))
>             if type(spamcookie) is Cookie.MarshalCookie:
>                 req.write('Here is what it looks like decoded: %s=%s\n'
>                           % (spamcookie.name, spamcookie.value))
>             else:
>                 req.write('WARNING: The cookie found is not a \
>                            MarshalCookie, it may have been tapered with!')
> 
>         else:
> 
>             # MarshaCookie allows value to be any marshallable object
>             value = {'egg_count': 32, 'color': 'white'}
>             Cookie.add_cookie(req, Cookie.MarshalCookie('spam', value,
> \
>                               'secret007'))
>             req.write('Spam cookie not found, but we just set one!\n')
> 
>         return apache.OK
> 
> should be rewritten:
> 
>     from mod_python import apache, Cookie
> 
>     def handler(req):
> 
>         cookies = Cookie.get_cookie*s*(req, Cookie.MarshalCookie,
>                                         secret='secret007')
>         if cookies.has_key('spam'):
>             spamcookie = cookies['spam']
> 
>             req.write('Great, a spam cookie was found: %s\n' \
>                                           % str(spamcookie))
>             if type(spamcookie) is Cookie.MarshalCookie:
>                 req.write('Here is what it looks like decoded: %s=%s\n'
>                           % (spamcookie.name, spamcookie.value))
>             else:
>                 req.write('WARNING: The cookie found is not a \
>                            MarshalCookie, it may have been tapered with!')
> 
>         else:
> 
>             # MarshaCookie allows value to be any marshallable object
>             value = {'egg_count': 32, 'color': 'white'}
>             Cookie.add_cookie(req, Cookie.MarshalCookie('spam', value,
> \
>                               'secret007'))
>             req.write('Spam cookie not found, but we just set one!\n')
> 
>         return apache.OK
> 
> Thanks for your nice module,
> Vivian.


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