Cookies in IE/Non-dev libapreq2 version for apache2?

[Jason Younker <do...@hotmail.com>]

Hello All,

I recently upgraded to the following (on a rhel3 box mason2.2):
Apache/2.0.55
mod_ssl/2.0.55
OpenSSL/0.9.8
mod_apreq2-20050712/2.1.3-dev
mod_perl/2.0.2
Perl/v5.8.0

Everything has been running fine on my linux dev box (using firefox 1.5). 
However, when I switch over to my windows box and use internet explorer, I 
can't get any cookie info.

Here is a simple test which shows the problem (where $r below is an 
Apache2::RequestRec object):

--start--

my $jar = Apache2::Cookie::Jar->new($r);
$m->out("Jar Status: ". $jar->status() ."<br>");

--end--

In Firefox 1.5 (linux/windows), this prints: "Jar Status: Success"
In IE 6.0.28 (windows), I am getting: "Jar Status: Missing input data"

Of course I would like to go on and gather data on/manipulate cookies (which 
I can do just fine in FF), but for IE the object I get back is undef and 
thus blows up in my face.

At this point, I want to install a reliably stable, non-dev version of 
libapreq2 so that I be sure the problem is not something with a 
Apache2::Cookie stuff. Or, better yet, if you have *any* ideas where I have 
gone wrong (missing module, perhaps an entry missing from my httpd.conf), I 
would really, really appreciate any suggestions.

Thanks.

Jason

Re: Cookies in IE/Non-dev libapreq2 version for apache2?

[Fred Moyer <fr...@taperfriendlymusic.org>]

Jason Younker wrote:
> I recently upgraded to the following (on a rhel3 box mason2.2):
> Apache/2.0.55
> mod_ssl/2.0.55
> OpenSSL/0.9.8
> mod_apreq2-20050712/2.1.3-dev
> mod_perl/2.0.2
> Perl/v5.8.0
> 
> Everything has been running fine on my linux dev box (using firefox 
> 1.5). However, when I switch over to my windows box and use internet 
> explorer, I can't get any cookie info.
> 
> Here is a simple test which shows the problem (where $r below is an 
> Apache2::RequestRec object):
> 
> my $jar = Apache2::Cookie::Jar->new($r);
> $m->out("Jar Status: ". $jar->status() ."<br>");
> 
> At this point, I want to install a reliably stable, non-dev version of 
> libapreq2 so that I be sure the problem is not something with a 
> Apache2::Cookie stuff. Or, better yet, if you have *any* ideas where I 
> have gone wrong (missing module, perhaps an entry missing from my 
> httpd.conf), I would really, really appreciate any suggestions.

You may want to try this cooking recipe[1] to determine if your setup 
functions under it.  If that's the case the error is probably in your 
implementation.  I'm not familiar with the Cookie::Jar approach you're 
using.  But I have experienced what you are describing with regards to 
the IE/Firefox behavior, it occurred when the cookie had an invalid 
domain or path.

[1]
http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/user/coding/cooking.html#Sending_Cookies_Using_libapreq2