# 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.
# FUNCTION
- bake\_cookie
my $cookie = bake_cookie('foo','val');
my $cookie = bake_cookie('foo', {
val => 'val',
path => "test",
domain => '.example.com',
expires => '+24h'
} );
Generates cookie string for HTTP response header.
First argument is cookies' name and seconds argument is 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, give HttpOnly flag. false by default.
- secure
If true, give secure flag. false by default.
- crush\_cookie
Parses cookie string and returns hashref
my $cookies_hashref = crush_cookie($headers->header('Cookie'));
# SEE ALSO
CPAN already has many cookie related modules. But there is not simple cookie string generator and parser modules.
[CGI](
http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?CGI), [CGI::Simple](
http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?CGI::Simple), [Plack](
http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Plack), [Dancer::Cookie](
http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?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 <
[email protected]>
