Assertion failed

[Michael McLagan]

Hello,

I am porting some code to 2.06 and came across this:

   $cookie = Apache2::Cookie->new($self->request,
                                  -name    => $name,
                                  -value   => '',
                                  -path    => '/',
                                  -domain  => $self->site->server,
                                  -expires => '-1s');
   $cookie->bake($self->request);

The purpose of the above is to clear out the cookie at the browser.

The not so happy result of which is:

   [Mon Dec 12 15:13:26 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Assertion 
((RETVAL)->sv_flags
       & 0xff) >= SVt_PV failed: file "Request.xs", line 58 at
       /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi/Apache2/Cookie.pm 
line 59.
       \n, referer: http://test.example.com/

I don't know if it's permissible by the relevant standards to have a cookie 
with a
value which is an empty string, but I would suggest that there might be a better
way to handle it instead of the above log line.

When I tried to create the cookie with 'undef', I got back 'undef' which seemed
reasonable.  Maybe the empty string should do the same?

Thanks for your efforts,

   Michael