NAME

Cookie::Baker - Cookie string generator / parser

SYNOPSIS

use Cookie::Baker;

$headers.push_header('Set-Cookie' => bake-cookie($key, $val));

my $cookies_hashref = crush-cookie($headers.header('Cookie'));

DESCRIPTION

Cookie::Baker provides simple cookie string generator and parser.

FUNCTIONS

• bake-cookie

  my cookie = bake-cookie( 'foo', 'val', path => "test", domain => '.example.com', expires => '+24h' );

Generates a cookie string for an HTTP response header. The first argument is the cookie's name and the second argument is a plain string or hash reference that can contain keys such as value, domain, expires, path, httponly, secure, max-age.

• value

Cookie's value

• domain

Cookie's domain.

• expires

Cookie's expires date time. Several formats are supported

expires => time + 24 * 60 * 60 # epoch time
expires => 'Wed, 03-Nov-2010 20:54:16 GMT'
expires => '+30s' # 30 seconds from now
expires => '+10m' # ten minutes from now
expires => '+1h'  # one hour from now
expires => '-1d'  # yesterday (i.e. "ASAP!")
expires => '+3M'  # in three months
expires => '+10y' # in ten years time
expires => 'now'  #immediately

• path

Cookie's path.

• httponly

If true, sets HttpOnly flag. false by default.

• secure

If true, sets secure flag. false by default.

• crush-cookie

Parses cookie string and returns a hashref.

my %cookies_hashref = crush-cookie($headers.header('Cookie'));
my $cookie_value = %cookies_hashref<cookie_name>;

AUTHOR

Tokuhiro Matsuno [email protected].

And original perl5 code is written by:

Masahiro Nagano [email protected]

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Perl6 port is:

Copyright 2015 Tokuhiro Matsuno <[email protected]>

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the Artistic License 2.0.

Original Perl5 code is:

Copyright (C) Masahiro Nagano.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself.