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http.SetRequestHeader("Cookie", char *) bug?: value in name/value pair gets enclosed in double quotes

Sep 02 '12 at 08:01

Using 9.31 On Mac OS.

Calling http.SetRequestHeader("Cookie", cookie.c_str());

where cookie.c_str() is name1=KszB2jqHO7phNhxcJlxIabDpHDR9;name2=abcdefgh

Enabled session log: What I see is:

Cookie:name1=KszB2jqHO7phNhxcJlxIabDpHDR9;name2="abcdefgh"

That is, after the first semi-colon (;), the value (in this case abcdefgh is enclosed in double quotes). If I have 3 name value pairs, the last 2 show this behavior. I get a server error.

Now, when I call

  CkString tmp_str;

  http.GetRequestHeader("Cookie", tmp_str);

  printf("GetRequestHeader %s\n", tmp_str.getString());

I get the correct value.

Appreciate your help. Thanks.

Note: the spec says that comma (,) should work (as ; is for backwards compatibility). When I use comma, the session log file shows the correct Cookie header but it doesn't work. It is possible that the server doesn't support this.

Babu Srinivasan

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Answer

Babu,

Thanks, this may already be fixed in the internal pre-release. I will re-build for Mac OS, test, and then notify you with a download link when the fix is ready. (I expect this to be later today.)

-Matt

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Answer

This new build should fix the problem:

(if using Objective-C) http://www.chilkatsoft.com/preRelease/Chilkat-9.3.1-Cocoa-10.6.zip

(if using C/C++) http://www.chilkatsoft.com/preRelease/chilkat-9.3.1-macosx.tar.gz

-Matt