Jon Anderson writes: > I won't argue that this behavior should probably be documented with > $_COOKIE, but it is documented with it's counterpart, setcookie: "Note > that the value portion of the cookie will automatically be urlencoded > when you send the cookie, and when it is received, it is automatically > decoded and assigned to a variable by the same name as the cookie name. Bingo! Thank you, thank you, thank you. This is exactly what I have been missing all along. It is not where I would have looked for it, but I guess now I'll have to stop complaining it does not exist. > If you don't want this, you can use setrawcookie() I wonder why PHP doesn't have a corresponding variable, $_RAWCOOKIE, to be used with setrawcookie()? That would have solved my problem. > <http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.setrawcookie.php> instead if you > are using PHP 5." > > In terms of the behavior, I think it makes total sense. The only case > where it would ever bite you is yours (which is rare because most people > wouldn't mix perl and PHP in the same system). I am beginning to understand why I am having so much trouble convincing folks here that my problem is real. Everyone seems to assume that cookies are used only to communicate between one web application and a browser. Perhaps my situation is rare. It doesn't seem very rare to me. :) > I think some of the negativity aimed at you stems from the fact that the > behavior has been explained and is quite clear. > There isn't much point > in arguing what it should be. It is exactly what it is. If you want to > argue what the behavior should be, try php-dev. (Making that kind of > argument here is like yelling at your neighbor 'cause Vista > sucks...assuming Bill Gates isn't your neighbor. :-) Point taken. Maybe I *should* go to php-dev. However, I fear they would be an even harder sell than you guys. :) And life is too short for that. Thanks, Jon, for a very insightful message. Fletcher Ps - if I were to go to php-dev, I think I would lobby for the addition of a new global variable: $_RAWCOOKIE. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
