[FASTCGI] Cookie processing in Fast CGI

[Tom Bowden]

martin,

A couple questions (compiled from previous post with an addition):

I tend to use external libraries that make my life easier.  Namely   
jsoncpp and pcrecpp.

With pcrecpp i can (for example) replace the parsing the logic where  
you're going character by character with something like:

#define PCRE_COOKIE_MASK "^Set-Cookie:[ \t]*([^=]+)=(.*)$"

and then:
std::string cookie_name;
std::string cookie_value;
if ( pcre_object->PartialMatch(instr, &cookie_name, &cookie_value) ) {
   // do assignment logic...
}

Obviously some times its not good to rely on third party libs  
(portability/etc).   Is this one of those times?  What would be most  
useful to the community?

Tom


On Dec 9, 2009, at 3:02 PM, Martin Chapman wrote:

> Tom,
>
> It's a little ugly because it's COM and if you convert it to  
> FastCGI it
> would be cool if you posted it back for the rest of us if you can.   
> The
> entire COM implementation is attached.
>
> General Gist:
>
> 1. Get the cookie from the env vars.  Should be called HTTP_COOKIE.
>
> 2. Use a method like the one below to parse the cookie value.
>
> STDMETHODIMP CCookie::ParseValue(BSTR sCookie)
> {
> 	AFX_MANAGE_STATE(AfxGetStaticModuleState());
>
> 	_bstr_t bstrCookie(sCookie);
> 	if (bstrCookie.length() == 0)
> 		return E_INVALIDARG;
>
> 	CString strCookie = (TCHAR*) bstrCookie;
> 	LPCSTR pEnd = strCookie;
> 	LPCSTR pStart = strCookie;
> 	CString name, value;
>
> 	while (*pEnd != '\0')
> 	{
> 		while (*pEnd && *pEnd != '=' && *pEnd != '&')
> 			pEnd++;
>
> 		if (*pEnd == '\0' || *pEnd == '&')
> 		{
> 			if (pEnd > pStart)
> 			{
> 				CopyToCString(value, pStart, pEnd);
> 			}
> 			put_Value(_bstr_t(value.GetBuffer()));
> 			if (*pEnd == '&')
> 			{
> 				pEnd++;
> 				pStart = pEnd;
> 				continue;
> 			}
> 			return S_OK;
> 		}
> 		else if (*pEnd == '=' )
> 		{
> 			if (pEnd > pStart)
> 			{
> 				CopyToCString(name, pStart, pEnd);
> 			}
> 			else
> 			{
> 				pEnd++;
> 				pStart = pEnd;
> 				break;
> 			}
>
> 			pEnd++;
> 			pStart = pEnd;
> 			while (*pEnd && *pEnd != '&' && *pEnd != '=')
> 				pEnd++;
> 			if (pEnd > pStart)
> 				CopyToCString(value, pStart, pEnd);
>
> 			AddValue(_bstr_t(name.GetBuffer()),
> _bstr_t(value.GetBuffer()));
> 			if (*pEnd != '\0')
> 				pEnd++;
> 			
> 			pStart = pEnd;
> 		}
> 	}
> 	
> 	return S_OK;
> }
>
> 3. The following func parses a single cookie value and is used in  
> the func
> above.
>
> STDMETHODIMP CCookie::ParseValue(BSTR sCookie)
> {
> 	AFX_MANAGE_STATE(AfxGetStaticModuleState());
>
> 	_bstr_t bstrCookie(sCookie);
> 	if (bstrCookie.length() == 0)
> 		return E_INVALIDARG;
>
> 	CString strCookie = (TCHAR*) bstrCookie;
> 	LPCSTR pEnd = strCookie;
> 	LPCSTR pStart = strCookie;
> 	CString name, value;
>
> 	while (*pEnd != '\0')
> 	{
> 		while (*pEnd && *pEnd != '=' && *pEnd != '&')
> 			pEnd++;
>
> 		if (*pEnd == '\0' || *pEnd == '&')
> 		{
> 			if (pEnd > pStart)
> 			{
> 				CopyToCString(value, pStart, pEnd);
> 			}
> 			put_Value(_bstr_t(value.GetBuffer()));
> 			if (*pEnd == '&')
> 			{
> 				pEnd++;
> 				pStart = pEnd;
> 				continue;
> 			}
> 			return S_OK;
> 		}
> 		else
> 		if (*pEnd == '=' )
> 		{
> 			if (pEnd > pStart)
> 			{
> 				CopyToCString(name, pStart, pEnd);
> 			}
> 			else
> 			{
> 				pEnd++;
> 				pStart = pEnd;
> 				break;
> 			}
>
> 			pEnd++;
> 			pStart = pEnd;
> 			while (*pEnd && *pEnd != '&' && *pEnd != '=')
> 				pEnd++;
> 			if (pEnd > pStart)
> 				CopyToCString(value, pStart, pEnd);
>
> 			AddValue(_bstr_t(name.GetBuffer()),
> _bstr_t(value.GetBuffer()));
> 			if (*pEnd != '\0')
> 				pEnd++;
> 			
> 			pStart = pEnd;
> 		}
> 	}
> 	
> 	return S_OK;
> }
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fastcgi-developers-bounces 
> +chapmanm=pixia.com at mailman.fastcgi.com
> [mailto:fastcgi-developers-bounces 
> +chapmanm=pixia.com at mailman.fastcgi.com]
> On Behalf Of Tom Bowden
> Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 1:18 PM
> To: FastCGI Developers
> Subject: [FASTCGI] Cookie processing in Fast CGI
>
> Is there a thread somewhere that talks about parsing cookies - or, is
> this something that I have to treat like any other header parsing  
> task.
>
> Tom
>
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