Re: base64-encoding in cookies?

On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 13:51 -0600, Fletcher Mattox wrote: > Jon Anderson writes: > > > Cookies must be encoded somehow: Because a raw cookie will contain > > "var=val; expires=time; path=/path/" type stuff, PHP would *have* to > > encode it. > > I don't mean to be thick, Jon, but I don't understand why it has to be > encoded at all. Are you saying that the "path=/path/" has to be encoded? > Well, ok (I don't entirely understand that either), but why encode > the "val"? "val" can be arbitrary data and shoud be left uninterpreted, > in my opinion. If val can be any value then it can also be: expires=time; path=/path/ Obviously, that would be an issue since that's part of the cookie parameters. As such, it needs to be encoded. Now go away! :) Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------'