Re: base64-encoding in cookies?

Hello Fletcher Mattox, urlencode the string before set the cookie or replace array(' ',urlencode('/')) to array('+','/') Best regards, ======= At 2007-02-07, 15:59:13 you wrote: ======= >Hi, > >A campus web server (not under my control) returns an authentication >string in a cookie named AUTH. The cookie's value is an encrypted, >base64 encoded string. Unfortunately, when I examine $_COOKIE['AUTH'], >it is clear that all of the '+' characters have been replaced with a ' ' >character in the base64 string. Why is this? Obviously, this corrupts >the data and makes it impossible to base64-decode the string correctly. >I believe this is a php issue and not, say, an apache issue because a >perl program can correctly authenticate the same cookie based on perl's >$ENV{'HTTP_COOKIE'}. i.e., the perl cookie contains the original '+'. >Does anyone know how to make php (v5.1.5) do the right thing with base64 >encoded cookies? > >Thanks >Fletcher > >-- >PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Nicholas Yim nick.yim@taowap.com 2007-02-07