[mod_python] can't seem to expire a cookie value

ok i installed the extension and captured some data..  here is what the
header looks like when i click the signout button:

Set-Cookie: user_name=matt; expires=Mon, 22-Jan-2007 01:54:01 GMT

then when i go back to the home page, my code reads the cookies to see if
the cookie called 'user_name' exists, and if so, logs me in and resets the
cookies:

if cookies.has_key('user_name'):
	cookie = Cookie.Cookie('user_name', user_name)
	cookie.expires = time.time() + 31536000
	Cookie.add_cookie(self.req, cookie)

i thought maybe i need to check the expiry date of the cookie, so i tried
that with the following code:

	self.req.write(str(cookies['user_name']) + '<br>\n')
	self.req.write('expires: ' + cookies['user_name'].expires + '<br>\n')

but that throws the following error:

	File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mod_python/Cookie.py", line 93,
	in get_expires
		return self._expires

	AttributeError: _expires

- m@

> Have you checked what the actual cookie header returned to the browser
> is and verified that what is in it is what you expect? Post the value
> of the header here so we can see it.
>
> Use FireFox live headers extension to see value of header, or in your
> mod_python code output to error log file the output of req.headers_out
> or req.err_headers_out to see what it is.
>
> Graham
>
> On 22/01/2008, Matt Barnicle <mattb at wageslavery.org> wrote:
>> > 21 January 2008 Monday 10:49:57 tarihinde Matt Barnicle þunlarý
>> yazmýþtý:
>> >> understand it, if i want to effectively remove a cookie from the UA,
>> there
>> >> is no way to do it, so u just have to set the expiry date to a time
>> in the
>> >> past, right?  but any efforts i make seem to fail.  here is the code:
>> >>
>> >> cookie = Cookie.Cookie('user_name', cookies['user_name'].value)
>> cookie.expires = int(time.time()) - 31536000 # minus 1 year from now
>> Cookie.add_cookie(self.req, cookie)
>> >
>> > Might be a problem of using int(), examples in the mod_python
>> > documentation don't use int():
>> >
>> > http://www.modpython.org/live/current/doc-html/pyapi-cookie-example.html
>>
>> i first tried it exactly like in the docs, then i tried int bc i know
>> the
>> official way to do it is to use int seconds since GMT...  i also tried
>> splitting time.time() on the period, and taking the int value of the
>> first
>> bit.  anyways it works ok when i log in then i check my cookies using
>> firefox web developer toolbar, it just doesn't seem to want to expire
>> the
>> cookie when i use this method..
>>
>> - m@
>>
>>
>>
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