Cookie::Baker(3)

NAME
Cookie::Baker - Cookie string generator / parser

SYNOPSIS
    use Cookie::Baker;

    $headers->push_header('Set-Cookie', bake_cookie($key,$val));

    my $cookies_hashref = crush_cookie($headers->header('Cookie'));

DESCRIPTION
Cookie::Baker provides simple cookie string generator and parser.

XS IMPLEMENTATION
This module tries to use Cookie::Baker::XS's crush_cookie by default. If this fails, it will use Cookie::Baker's pure Perl crush_cookie.

There is no XS implementation of bake_cookie yet.

FUNCTION

bake_cookie
      my $cookie = bake_cookie('foo','val');
      my $cookie = bake_cookie('foo', {
          value => 'val',
          path => "test",
          domain => '.example.com',
          expires => '+24h'
      } );

    Generates a cookie string for an HTTP response header. The first argument is the cookie's name and the second argument is a plain string or hash reference that can contain keys such as "value", "domain", "expires", "path", "httponly", "secure", "max-age".

    value
        Cookie's value

    domain
        Cookie's domain.

    expires
        Cookie's expires date time. Several formats are supported

          expires => time + 24 * 60 * 60 # epoch time
          expires => 'Wed, 03-Nov-2010 20:54:16 GMT'
          expires => '+30s' # 30 seconds from now
          expires => '+10m' # ten minutes from now
          expires => '+1h'  # one hour from now
          expires => '-1d'  # yesterday (i.e. "ASAP!")
          expires => '+3M'  # in three months
          expires => '+10y' # in ten years time
          expires => 'now'  #immediately

    path
        Cookie's path.

    httponly
        If true, sets HttpOnly flag. false by default.

    secure
        If true, sets secure flag. false by default.

crush_cookie
    Parses cookie string and returns a hashref.

        my $cookies_hashref = crush_cookie($headers->header('Cookie'));
        my $cookie_value = $cookies_hashref->{cookie_name}

SEE ALSO
CPAN already has many cookie related modules. But there is no simple cookie string generator and parser module.

CGI, CGI::Simple, Plack, Dancer::Cookie

LICENSE
Copyright (C) Masahiro Nagano.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

AUTHOR
Masahiro Nagano <kazeburo@gmail.com>