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Perl in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition
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Perl in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition

by Nathan Patwardhan, Ellen Siever, Stephen Spainhour
June 2002
Beginner
759 pages
80h 42m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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HTTP::Cookies::Netscape

The HTTP::Cookies class contains one subclass that supports Netscape-style cookies within a cookie jar object. Netscape-style cookies were defined in the original cookie specification for Navigator 1.1, which outlined the syntax for the Cookie and Set-Cookie HTTP headers. Netscape cookie headers are different from the newer Set-Cookie2-style cookies in that they don’t support as many additional parameters when a cookie is set. The Cookie header also does not use a version-number attribute. Many browsers and servers still use the original Netscape cookies, and the Netscape subclass of HTTP::Cookies can be used to support this style.

The new constructor for this subclass creates a Netscape-compatible cookie jar object like this:

$njar = HTTP::Cookies::Netscape->new(
                  File     => "$ENV{HOME}/.netscape/cookies",
                  AutoSave => 1 );

The methods described above can be used on this object, although many of the parameters used in Set-Cookie2 headers will simply be lost when cookies are saved to the cookie jar .

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