Ha! All the error messages did seemed to end in blahblah=. (I am going to blame the cold I am recovering from for making me think that somehow {key:val} was used. Either that or I've been using too much JSON and forgot some things predate JSON like cookies and s-exp.)
I have a question about the substring logic. It does not seem to look for = or \n but chops off the last 3. Am I to infer that that is the case for all the outcome of (bytes->string/utf-8 (base64-encode (HMAC-SHA1 ....? And thank you for your keen diagnosis as usual. And for the code as well. (Note to self: So that's what professional code looks like? I got a long way to go.) jGc On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccar...@gmail.com> wrote: > That's exactly the problem. > > Here's a fairly re-usable identifying cookie: > > https://github.com/jeapostrophe/m8b/blob/master/id-cookie.rkt > > Notice at the top I just get the substring of the BASE64. > > Jay > > 2011/5/18 Neil Van Dyke <n...@neilvandyke.org>: >> J G Cho wrote at 05/18/2011 04:23 AM: >>> >>> (define (make-digest s1 s2) >>> (bytes->string/utf-8 >>> (base64-encode >>> (HMAC-SHA1 (string->bytes/utf-8 s1) >>> (string->bytes/utf-8 s2))))) >>> >>> I then use it to make a cookie like: >>> >>> (define digest >>> (make-digest "saltycracker" (string-append "time" time "id" "joseph"))) >>> >>> (define digest-cookie >>> (make-cookie "digest" digest)) >>> >>> Writing it out seems to go okay but when I try to read it back, I am >>> greeted with: >>> >>> lexer: No match found in input starting with: >>> "WFs1fa0jLTOXqiLG08EtBq1wNYI= >>> >> >> Is the problem that the BASE64 output contains "=" and newline characters, >> and that's getting into the HTTP header verbatim? >> >> If that's the problem, then probably you want to trim the "=" and newline >> characters from the string. (You could re-encode, but that would be >> redundant, since the purpose of BASE64 is to encode bytes safely for >> transport.) >> >> -- >> http://www.neilvandyke.org/ >> _________________________________________________ >> For list-related administrative tasks: >> http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users >> > > > > -- > Jay McCarthy <j...@cs.byu.edu> > Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University > http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay > > "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93 > _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users