On Sunday, April 28, 2002, at 06:15 AM, Mat Harrison wrote:
> sorry to have to go back to this but I have found that if i try to fetch
> a
> cookie that isn't there, it doesn't return empty, it gives me a 500 error
> and something like this.
>
> Can't call method "value" on an undefined value at check_login.cgi line 9.
i think i was open to this problem in my code.
i have:
%cookie = fetch CGI::Cookie or die "can't get cookie";
$usertype = $cookie{'usertype'}->value;
i/we should be checking for its existence.
say
$ref = $cookie{'usertype'};
$val=0;
if ($ref) # or if (defined($ref)) ?
{
$val = $ref->value;
}
else
{
print "cookie 'usertype' doesn't exist";
}
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bob ackerman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 8:48 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: authentication and user management
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>
> On Thursday, April 25, 2002, at 12:15 PM, Mat Harrison wrote:
>
>> also, what is the best way to include the cookie-checker in the
>> restricted
>> pages, ExecCGI or IncludeVirtual?
>
> i use CGI::Cookie in a package of my subroutines.
> I put 'use utils;' and call the checking subroutine at start of each of my
> cgi files.
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: bob ackerman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 7:26 PM
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: Re: authentication and user management
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, April 25, 2002, at 10:58 AM, Mat Harrison wrote:
>>
>>> i am building a perl/cookie members system for my site using SSI to
>>> check
>>> if
>>> a cookie is present (set at login), if not, to redirect to an error
>>> page.
>>> This is my plan:
>>>
>>>
>>> 1. login page. check that the username and password match that in the
>>> database.
>>> 2. if yes then set a cookie with the users's ID from the database
>>> 3. when the restricted page is called then the script attempts to
>>> retrieve
>>> the cookie.
>>>
>>> How do i say if ($cookievalue eq "" || cookie does not exist){
>>> redirect to an error page
>>> }
>>>
>>> I know how to retrieve a cookie and redirect but how do i get the script
>>> to
>>> tell the difference between an incorrect cookie value (one that doesn't
>>> match any IDs in the database) and no cookie at all.
>>
>> when you ask for a cookie for a given key, if it doesn't exist it will be
>> empty.
>> as in code above. I don't think you want to worry about the cookie
>> existing with an empty value.
>> That wouldn't be a valid login.
>> Then if the cookie exists, you could do a db query to make sure the id is
>> actually in the database.
>>
>>> If anyone can suggest anything about the cookies or any tips on this
>>> subject
>>> in general please help
>>>
>>> Thanks in Advance
>>>
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>>> Matthew Harrison
>>> Webmaster
>>> www.genestate.com
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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