Re: base64-encoding in cookies?

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On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 13:51 -0600, Fletcher Mattox wrote:
> Jon Anderson writes:
> 
> > Cookies must be encoded somehow: Because a raw cookie will contain 
> > "var=val; expires=time; path=/path/" type stuff, PHP would *have* to 
> > encode it. 
> 
> I don't mean to be thick, Jon, but I don't understand why it has to be
> encoded at all.  Are you saying that the "path=/path/" has to be encoded?
> Well, ok (I don't entirely understand that either), but why encode
> the "val"?  "val" can be arbitrary data and shoud be left uninterpreted,
> in my opinion.

If val can be any value then it can also be:

    expires=time; path=/path/ 

Obviously, that would be an issue since that's part of the cookie
parameters. As such, it needs to be encoded. Now go away!

:)

Cheers,
Rob.
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