[Zope3-dev] quoting cookies

[Tres Seaver]

On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 08:15, Steve Alexander wrote:
> Steve Alexander wrote:
> > zope/publisher/http.py, line 823.
> > 
> > Cookie values and comments are not quoted at all by the HTTP response
> > 
> > Some applications will want to take care of quoting values in cookies, 
> > but most applications will want to be able to set cookies and get 
> > cookies, and have sensible quoting take place automatically.
> > 
> > Any thoughts?
> 
> One thought is to make setCookie quote the value by default, unless a 
> do_not_quote=True (or perhaps raw=True) argument is passed in.
> 
> I think people don't care about the exact representation of cookies most 
> of the time.

   class IHTTPCookieQuoter(Interface):
      def quoteCookie(mapping):
          """ mapping->string.

          o Applies appropriate quoting.
          """

Then, in ZCML:

   <utility component=".utilities.cookie_quoter"
         provides=".IHTTPCookieConverter"
         />

People who want to change the policy then do it via configuration,
rather than code.


Tres.
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