[Zope] Cookies and Python Scripts

[seb bacon]

Someone alerted the list (yesterdat I think) to a bug in the latest
Apache concerning cookies.  If you are using Apache as your server this
could be worth following up.

seb

On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 10:39, Matthew Anderson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am experiencing cookie 'weirdness' on Zope (V 2.5.1b1)...
> 
> I have two python scripts that are called from within a DTML Method.
> The first, py_cookie_read(foo) attempts to read an existing cookie and returns 1 if a value is present or 0 if the value is not present. 
> The second, py_cookie_set(foo) attempts to overwrite the cookie with a new value after an action has been taken (voting in a poll).
> 
> The code I use to read from the cookie is as follows:
>      poll_cookie = context.REQUEST.cookie['poll']
> 
> And the code I use to set the cookie is as follows:
>      context.REQUEST.RESPONSE.setCookie('poll', new_poll_cookie, expires=expiry) 
>      - where new_poll_cookie and expiry are variables set in the same script.
> 
> The 'weirdness' that am I experiencing is that the cookie is rarely set and certainly never read properly. The few times that I have observed it in the REQUEST list - it has appeared under 'form' variables and 'other' variables but never 'cookie' variables.
> 
> I think it may have something to do with the 'context' under which I am trying to set and read the cookies even though both scripts are called from within the same DTML Method - perhaps the cookie is only associated with individual python scripts?
> 
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated...
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Matt
> 
> BTW - cookies are enabled in my browser :-)
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