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>From: "F. GEIGER" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "Chuck Esterbrook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Webware-discuss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: AW: [Webware-discuss] Webware 0.5 and Cookies: How to
>use setMaxAge()?
>Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 20:19:37 +0200
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> > "setMaxAge()" name from the Java Servlet spec. You mention the 'expires'
> > attribute, but I'm not even aware of this. O'Malley's module mentions RFC
>
>In WebUtils/Cookie.py I found:
>
>class Morsel(UserDict):
> # RFC 2109 lists these attributes as reserved:
> # path comment domain
> # max-age secure version
> #
> # For historical reasons, these attributes are also reserved:
> # expires
> #
> # This dictionary provides a mapping from the lowercase
> # variant on the left to the appropriate traditional
> # formatting on the right.
> _reserved = { "expires" : "expires",
> "path" : "Path",
> "comment" : "Comment",
> "domain" : "Domain",
> "max-age" : "Max-Age",
> "secure" : "secure",
> "version" : "Version",
> }
> _reserved_keys = _reserved.keys()
>
>
>So "expires" seems to be something deprecated. I followed your link
>http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/cgi-bin/rfc/rfc2109.html and found:
>
>10.1.2 Expires and Max-Age
>Netscape's original proposal defined an Expires header that took a date
>value in a fixed-length variant format in place of Max-Age:
>
>Wdy, DD-Mon-YY HH:MM:SS GMT
>
>Note that the Expires date format contains embedded spaces, and that "old"
>cookies did not have quotes around values. Clients that implement to this
>specification should be aware of "old" cookies and Expires.
>
>
> > So try passing an integer to setMaxAge() and let us know how that
> > works for
> > you:
> >
> > cookie.setMaxAge(30*24*60*60) # expire in 30 days
>
>No, it didn't. I'll stick with "expires" for now. BTW: I use MSIE 5.5.
>
>Best regards
>Franz
>
>
> > -----Urspr�ngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: Chuck Esterbrook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Gesendet: Sonntag, 01. April 2001 19:47
> > An: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Webware-discuss
> > Betreff: Re: [Webware-discuss] Webware 0.5 and Cookies: How to use
> > setMaxAge()?
> >
> >
> > At 06:59 PM 4/1/2001 +0200, F. GEIGER wrote:
> > >Hi all,
> > >
> > >to have cookies lasting longer than a session does, I had to set
> > >"expires=dd-MMM-YYYY" where - and that's kind of strange -
> > dd-MMM-YYYY could
> > >be a date in the past, e.g. "01-Jan-2001".
> > >
> > >Class WebKit/Cookie does not provide a method "setExpires()" or
> > >"setExpiryDate()", so I had to write
> > >
> > >cookieUser = Cookie('cookieUserName', "%s %s" % (user.addressNameFirst(),
> > >user.addressNameLast()))
> > >cookieUser._cookie['expires'] = "01-Jan-2001"
> > >
> > >Is the intention of class Cookie, that it is subclassed by me?
> > >
> > >There is a method setMaxAge(). I did not find a description for
> > max-age as I
> > >did for expires (found it in "ASP in a Nutshell"). How has
> > setMaxAge() to be
> > >used? I tried setMaxAge("02-Apr-2001") and setMaxAge("+1d").
> >
> > Regarding your subclassing question, the answer is No, it is not our
> > intention that you should have to subclass Cookie in order to set
> > standard
> > attributes or do typical things.
> >
> > WebKit.Cookie.setMaxAge() is a bit of a "pass through" method whose
> > implementation simply sets the "max-age" attribute of the
> > underlying cookie
> > implementation.
> >
> > def setMaxAge(self, maxAge):
> > self._cookie['max-age'] = maxAge
> >
> > I got 'max-age' from Tim O'Malley cookie module. I borrowed the
> > "setMaxAge()" name from the Java Servlet spec. You mention the 'expires'
> > attribute, but I'm not even aware of this. O'Malley's module mentions RFC
> > 2109, so I searched for it on Google.com:
> > http://www.google.com/search?q=RFC+2109
> >
> > And found the first copy here:
> > http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/cgi-bin/rfc/rfc2109.html
> >
> > It defines Max-Age like so:
> >
> > Max-Age=delta-seconds
> > Optional. The Max-Age attribute defines the lifetime of the cookie, in
> > seconds. The delta-seconds value is a decimal non- negative
> > integer. After
> > delta-seconds seconds elapse, the client should discard the
> > cookie. A value
> > of zero means the cookie should be discarded immediately.
> >
> >
> > So try passing an integer to setMaxAge() and let us know how that
> > works for
> > you:
> >
> > cookie.setMaxAge(30*24*60*60) # expire in 30 days
> >
> >
> > -Chuck
> >
> >
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