Re: base64-encoding in cookies?

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Hello Fletcher Mattox,

   urlencode the string before set the cookie
   or
   replace array(' ',urlencode('/')) to array('+','/')

Best regards, 
  
======= At 2007-02-07, 15:59:13 you wrote: =======

>Hi,
>
>A campus web server (not under my control) returns an authentication
>string in a cookie named AUTH.  The cookie's value is an encrypted,
>base64 encoded string.  Unfortunately, when I examine $_COOKIE['AUTH'],
>it is clear that all of the '+' characters have been replaced with a ' ' 
>character in the base64 string.  Why is this?  Obviously, this corrupts
>the data and makes it impossible to base64-decode the string correctly.
>I believe this is a php issue and not, say, an apache issue because a
>perl program can correctly authenticate the same cookie based on perl's
>$ENV{'HTTP_COOKIE'}.  i.e., the perl cookie contains the original '+'.
>Does anyone know how to make php (v5.1.5) do the right thing with base64
>encoded cookies?
>
>Thanks
>Fletcher
>
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2007-02-07

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