CgiCC HTTPCookies supports MaxAge that may be 0 (browser) or positive according to RFC,
Other very important options Expires is not supported. This option is mostly useless because requires
definition of absolute time. However one special case exists: Cookies Removal.
In many cases it is very useful to remove cookies by setting Expiration date in past.
I've written a little patch to fix this problem, please consider to merge it into upstream
Artyom
--- cgicc-3.2.7/cgicc/HTTPCookie.cpp 2008-07-06 18:27:18.000000000 +0300
+++ cgicc-3.2.7-patched/cgicc/HTTPCookie.cpp 2009-01-05 14:12:07.972561100 +0200
@@ -33,7 +33,8 @@
// ============================================================
cgicc::HTTPCookie::HTTPCookie()
: fMaxAge(0),
- fSecure(false)
+ fSecure(false),
+ fRemoved(false)
{}
cgicc::HTTPCookie::HTTPCookie(const std::string& name,
@@ -41,7 +42,20 @@
: fName(name),
fValue(value),
fMaxAge(0),
- fSecure(false)
+ fSecure(false),
+ fRemoved(false)
+{}
+
+cgicc::HTTPCookie::HTTPCookie(const std::string& name,
+ const std::string& domain,
+ const std::string& path,
+ bool secure)
+ : fName(name),
+ fDomain(domain),
+ fMaxAge(0),
+ fPath(path),
+ fSecure(secure),
+ fRemoved(false)
{}
cgicc::HTTPCookie::HTTPCookie(const std::string& name,
@@ -57,7 +71,8 @@
fDomain(domain),
fMaxAge(maxAge),
fPath(path),
- fSecure(secure)
+ fSecure(secure),
+ fRemoved(false)
{}
cgicc::HTTPCookie::HTTPCookie(const HTTPCookie& cookie)
@@ -94,8 +109,10 @@
out << "; Comment=" << fComment;
if(false == fDomain.empty())
out << "; Domain=" << fDomain;
- if(0 != fMaxAge)
- out << "; Max-Age=" << fMaxAge;
+ if(fRemoved)
+ out << "; Expires=Fri, 01-Jan-1971 01:00:00 GMT;";
+ else if(0 != fMaxAge)
+ out << "; Max-Age=" << fMaxAge;
if(false == fPath.empty())
out << "; Path=" << fPath;
if(true == fSecure)
--- cgicc-3.2.7/cgicc/HTTPCookie.h 2008-07-06 18:27:18.000000000 +0300
+++ cgicc-3.2.7-patched/cgicc/HTTPCookie.h 2009-01-05 14:08:30.729184100 +0200
@@ -104,6 +104,22 @@
bool secure);
/*!
+ * \brief Create a new partially-spefified HTTPCookie for deletion
+ *
+ *
+ * \param name The name of the cookie.
+ * \param domain The domain for which this cookie is valid- an empty string
+ * will use the hostname of the server which generated the cookie response.
+ * If specified, the domain <em>must</em> start with a period('.').
+ * \param path The subset of URLS in a domain for which the cookie is
+ * valid, for example \c /
+ * @param secure Specifies whether this is a secure cookie.
+ */
+ HTTPCookie(const std::string& name,
+ const std::string& domain,
+ const std::string& path,
+ bool secure);
+ /*!
* \brief Copy constructor
*
* Set the name, value, comment, domain, age and path of this cookie
@@ -303,6 +319,16 @@
setSecure(bool secure)
{ fSecure = secure; }
//@}
+
+ /*!
+ * \brief Mark this cookie as secure or unsecure.
+ *
+ * \param secure Whether this is a secure cookie.
+ */
+ inline void
+ remove()
+ { fRemoved = true; }
+ //@}
// ============================================================
@@ -320,6 +346,7 @@
unsigned long fMaxAge;
std::string fPath;
bool fSecure;
+ bool fRemoved;
};
} // namespace cgicc
