[Zope-dev] Re: session cookies newbie question

[Tres Seaver]

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Serge Zagorac wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I would like to access the browser's session cookie values. By browser's
> (or clients) session cookies I mean those cookies that have the expiry
> time set 'at  end of session' and are not stored in the  cookie.txt. Is 
> there  something in Zope's API that can help me do it. I need the
> solution for Mozilla and Microsoft based browsers.
> 
> Either Zope or general python API pointer would be much appreciated.

The information you want is not available server-side, because the
client does not pass the relevant data (the expiration, or lack of one)
in the HTTP-Cookie header.  See the cookie spec[1] for details.

You need to be asking how to do what you want client-side, e.g. in
Javascript, or else find another solution to your problem.

[1] http://wp.netscape.com/newsref/std/cookie_spec.html


Tres.
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