I wrote:
> 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?
This problem seems to be
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=35523
where it was dismissed as "Bogus" without any explanation why. It seems
that '+' characters are intentionally converted to spaces in all cookies.
This makes no sense to me. Can someone explain it?
Thanks,
Fletcher
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