Class

Class representing an HTTP cookie.

In addition to its specific fields and methods, a Cookie instance is a delegator to the array of its values.

See RFC 2965.

Examples of use

cookie1 = CGI::Cookie.new("name", "value1", "value2", ...)
cookie1 = CGI::Cookie.new("name" => "name", "value" => "value")
cookie1 = CGI::Cookie.new('name'     => 'name',
                          'value'    => ['value1', 'value2', ...],
                          'path'     => 'path',   # optional
                          'domain'   => 'domain', # optional
                          'expires'  => Time.now, # optional
                          'secure'   => true,     # optional
                          'httponly' => true      # optional
                          )

cgi.out("cookie" => [cookie1, cookie2]) { "string" }

name     = cookie1.name
values   = cookie1.value
path     = cookie1.path
domain   = cookie1.domain
expires  = cookie1.expires
secure   = cookie1.secure
httponly = cookie1.httponly

cookie1.name     = 'name'
cookie1.value    = ['value1', 'value2', ...]
cookie1.path     = 'path'
cookie1.domain   = 'domain'
cookie1.expires  = Time.now + 30
cookie1.secure   = true
cookie1.httponly = true
Attributes
Read & Write

Name of this cookie, as a String

Read & Write

Path for which this cookie applies, as a String

Read & Write

Domain for which this cookie applies, as a String

Read & Write

Time at which this cookie expires, as a Time

Read

True if this cookie is secure; false otherwise

Read

True if this cookie is httponly; false otherwise

Class Methods

Create a new CGI::Cookie object.

name_string

The name of the cookie; in this form, there is no domain or expiration. The path is gleaned from the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable, and secure is false.

*value

value or list of values of the cookie

options_hash

A Hash of options to initialize this Cookie. Possible options are:

name

the name of the cookie. Required.

value

the cookie’s value or list of values.

path

the path for which this cookie applies. Defaults to the the value of the SCRIPT_NAME environment variable.

domain

the domain for which this cookie applies.

expires

the time at which this cookie expires, as a Time object.

secure

whether this cookie is a secure cookie or not (default to false). Secure cookies are only transmitted to HTTPS servers.

httponly

whether this cookie is a HttpOnly cookie or not (default to

false).  HttpOnly cookies are not available to javascript.

These keywords correspond to attributes of the cookie object.

Parse a raw cookie string into a hash of cookie-name=>Cookie pairs.

cookies = CGI::Cookie.parse("raw_cookie_string")
  # { "name1" => cookie1, "name2" => cookie2, ... }
Instance Methods

Set whether the Cookie is a httponly cookie or not.

val must be a boolean.

A summary of cookie string.

Set whether the Cookie is a secure cookie or not.

val must be a boolean.

Convert the Cookie to its string representation.

Returns the value or list of values for this cookie.

Replaces the value of this cookie with a new value or list of values.