NAME

CGI::Cookie::XS - HTTP Cookie parser in pure C

VERSION

This document describes CGI::Cookie::XS 0.18 released on September 2, 2009.

SYNOPSIS

    use CGI::Cookie::XS;

    my $raw_cookie = 'foo=a%20phrase;weird; bar=yes%2C%20a%20phrase; baz=%5Ewibble&leiyh; qux=%27';
    my $res = CGI::Cookie::XS->parse($raw_cookie);
    # $res is something like:
    #    {
    #      'bar' => [
    #                 'yes, a phrase'
    #               ],
    #      'baz' => [
    #                 '^wibble',
    #                 'leiyh'
    #               ],
    #      'foo' => [
    #                 'a phrase'
    #               ],
    #      'qux' => [
    #                 '\''
    #               ]
    #    };

    # or directly read raw cookies from the CGI environments:
    $res = CGI::Cookie::XS->fetch;

DESCRIPTION

This module implements a very simple parser for cookies used in HTTP applications. We've found CGI::Simple::Cookie and CGI::Cookie rather slow according to the profiling results for our OpenResty project, hence the rewrite in C.

This library is still in beta stage and the API is still in flux. We're just following the "release early, releaes often" guideline. So please check back often ;)

Special effort has been made to ensure this module works in the same way as the latest CGI::Cookie (i.e., the pure Perl implementation). If you find it doesn't, please let us know.

METHODS

We currently provide 2 static methods, "parse" and "fetch". They work mostly the same way as those methods found in CGI::Cookie and CGI::Simple::Cookie but with the exception that our version returns plain Perl data structures rather than hashes of Perl objects (due to performance considerations).

We'll implement some cookie dump methods in the near future.

"$ref = CGI::Cookie::XS->parse($raw_cookie)"

Parses $raw_cookie and returns the reference of a hash of arrays. The keys of the hash are cookie variables' names while the values of the hash are lists of cookie variable's values.

There is a length limit on the $raw_cookie. If $raw_cookie is longer than 4 KB (i.e. 4 * 1024 bytes, excluding the trailing '\0'), the overflowing part will be truncated.

Also note that, "fetch" does not assume any encoding on the cookie values. It just decodes the encoded entries verbatim and treat them as plain "binary" stuff.

"$ref = CGI::Cookie::XS->fetch()"

Reads the raw cookie from the "HTTP_COOKIE" and "COOKIE" environments (which are usually set by HTTP servers like lighttd or apache) and then parses the value using the "parse" method and finally returns the results.

TODO

•: Removing trailing spaces in cookie values.

SOURCE CONTROL

For the very latest version of this module, check out the source from the Git repos below:

<http://github.com/agentzh/cookiexs/>

There is anonymous access to all. If you'd like a commit bit, please let us know. :)

BUGS

There must be some serious bugs lurking somewhere. We haven't done comprehensive testing for our code yet. It's a TODO.

Please report bugs or send wish-list to <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=CGI-Cookie-XS>.

AUTHOR

yuting "<yuting at alibaba-inc.com>"
agentzh "<agentzh at yahoo.cn>"

COPYRIGHT

License

The "MIT" License

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