Re: [Cecid-devel] Cookie Handling

[Patrick C. <pco...@ii...>]

Nope, its not being actively worked on, so by all means have a crack at it. What you've said sounds 
good - as long as its possible for the user to choose whether they want cookies to be kept for them. 
I can stick an option on the front page or something if you want.
-ptrck

Mot Zeven wrote:
> Since I have some free time on my hands, I took a look at the TODO list 
> for a challenge and noticed that Cookies are yet to be implemented. 
> However, on the TODO it lists "cookie forwarding" (which seems odd) so I 
> thought it best to ask for some technical guidance before getting 
> hacking. Firstly, if it's being actively worked on, then just tell me 
> and I'll shift focus to another bug that needs doing. Secondly, how 
> exactly are you planning on implementing cookies? Direct forwarding 
> isn't technically viable - here's my idea, if you've got any others then 
> tell me:
> 
> [Setting Cookies]
> * If the user asks for cookies, create or restore a session
> * Grab the cookie header, stripping date, expiry, etc
> * Save the cookie header as a session variable with the name being the 
> domain that the cookie is allowed to be accessed from
> 
> [Getting / Sending Cookies]
> * If the user asks for cookies, restore the session
> * Get the cookie header from the session variable
> * Send the cookie data in the headers of the GET/POST request
> 
> Motz
> 
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