[mod_python] Can i have both Marshal and Signed CookieswithPublisher?

Eric Brunson brunson at brunson.com
Mon Oct 30 17:11:18 EST 2006


Graham Dumpleton wrote:
> Clodoaldo Pinto Neto wrote ..
>   
>> 2006/10/29, Graham Dumpleton <grahamd at dscpl.com.au>:
>>     
>>> Clodoaldo Pinto Neto wrote ..
>>>       
>>>> 2006/10/29, Graham Dumpleton <grahamd at dscpl.com.au>:
>>>> IMHO, the least surprise behavior is if Cookie.get_cookies() returned
>>>> all cookies of the given class regardless of how many different cookie
>>>> classes there are in the header.
>>>>         
>>> There is nothing in a cookie string though to be able to identify it
>>>       
>> as being
>>     
>>> of a particular type. The only way you can know is to try and decode
>>>       
>> it and
>>     
>>> if it works then it probably is.
>>>       
>> It is exactly what MarshalCookie.parse() does:
>>     
>
> But it is still an assumption because they aren't tagged as being of a
> particular type. :-)
>   

"When faced with ambiguity resist the temptation to guess"  ;-)

I have nothing useful to contribute to this discussion, but I thought 
that was pertinent.

e.



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