Can you post your cookie parsing code? It would help us understand the 
problem.

On Monday, 3 December 2012 15:28:12 UTC-6, Dominic Cioccarelli wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have discovered an issue with the way web2py treats the "cookies" 
> header. Specifically, when the header grows bigger than a certain size, 
> web2py doesn't retrieve all the required cookies for the domain in question.
>
> In my case, the application is running on an intranet for a rather big 
> company. This means that many cookies are potentially available to an 
> application (those that are stored at the domain level) meaning that the 
> length of the overall cookies header grows.
>
> If I iterate over all the headers in Java (JSP) I get a complete set. If I 
> then redirect to a web2py application, I only get the first x headers 
> (where x is dependant of the previous cookie's lengths). The *
> request.env.http_cookie* variable is complete however.
>
> Whilst I've managed to code around this issue (by writing my own 
> cookie retrieval function that parses request.env.http_cookie) there is a 
> problem with the inbuilt session management code as it uses the underlying 
> (broken) cookie code to store the session ID.
>
> I haven't had a chance to look at the source code for cookie management in 
> web2py but wanted to check whether anyone else had experienced this issue?
>
> Regards,
> Dominic.
>
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