On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Nicholas Zakas <[email protected]> wrote:
> Even though there can be multiple cookies with the same name on a single 
> document, this most frequently occurs due to error rather than intention. 
> I've never received a YUI bug report about this occurrence though I have 
> considered returning an array of values instead of just the first value in 
> this case. I might just go do that now. :)
>
> My initial comment still remains: retrieving the value of a single named 
> cookie seems to be a much more common use case than retrieving all cookies. 
> You can choose to solve the duplicate cookie name issue in a number of ways, 
> but not providing a way to access a cookie by name seems like a flaw in this 
> design.

Done.  I've made the API return the first cookie that matches the
specified name.  If a web developer wants to get all the cookies, I've
added a getAllCookies() API.

Adam

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