Apache::Cookie seems to read different Cookie than CGI

[da...@apn.co.nz]

Hi All

I have to read a domain cookie set by a ColdFusion Web Server on a 
different host. CF sets a cookie value like

user@domain.com|2004-10-22 16:16:41|70DC39BB99CB4CB826E3F30AA25D97FE

I can read this cookie with CGI.pm, and it seems to identical. When I try 
to get the same cookie value using Apache::Cookie, it gets returned as

user@domain.com|2004-10-22+16:16:41|70DC39BB99CB4CB826E3F30AA25D97FE

Note the '+' between the date and time. Unfortunately, this breaks 
everything, as I need the first two pipe delimited values to hash to the 
third value (using a key in addition to this). Does anyone know why this 
would happen, and if there is a workaround?

Regards

Dan

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Re: Apache::Cookie seems to read different Cookie than CGI

[idstewart <id...@compuvative.com>]

dan.horne@apn.co.nz wrote:

>
> Hi All
>
> I have to read a domain cookie set by a ColdFusion Web Server on a 
> different host. CF sets a cookie value like
>
> user@domain.com|2004-10-22 16:16:41|70DC39BB99CB4CB826E3F30AA25D97FE
>
> I can read this cookie with CGI.pm, and it seems to identical. When I 
> try to get the same cookie value using Apache::Cookie, it gets 
> returned as
>
> user@domain.com|2004-10-22+16:16:41|70DC39BB99CB4CB826E3F30AA25D97FE
>
> Note the '+' between the date and time. Unfortunately, this breaks 
> everything, as I need the first two pipe delimited values to hash to 
> the third value (using a key in addition to this). Does anyone know 
> why this would happen, and if there is a workaround? 

If I were to hazard a guess, I would say that Apache::Cookie is URL 
encoding the cookie.  If you URL decode the value returned from 
Apache::Cookie, you should get the same value that is being reported by 
CGI.pm and Cold Fusion.

As a poor man's URL decode, you could try something like:

    $cookie =~ s/+/ /g;

This will replace the '+' with a space in the value returned by 
Apache::Cookie and leave the value returned by CGI.pm unaffected.


HTH.
Ian