Method: CGI::Cookie.new(name = '', *value)

Create a new CGI::Cookie object.

The contents of the cookie can be specified as a name and one or more value arguments. Alternatively, the contents can be specified as a single hash argument. The possible keywords of this hash are as follows:

name:	the name of the cookie. Required.
value:	the cookie’s value or list of values.
path:	the path for which this cookie applies. Defaults to the base directory of the CGI script.
domain:	the domain for which this cookie applies.
expires:	the time at which this cookie expires, as a `Time` object.
secure:	whether this cookie is a secure cookie or not (default to false). Secure cookies are only transmitted to HTTPS servers.
http_only:	whether this cookie can be accessed by client side scripts (e.g. document.cookie) or only over HTTP More details: msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.httpc... Defaults to false.

These keywords correspond to attributes of the cookie object.

Source Code

# File action_controller/cgi_ext/cookie.rb, line 29
def initialize(name = '', *value)
  if name.kind_of?(String)
    @name = name
    @value = Array(value)
    @domain = nil
    @expires = nil
    @secure = false
    @http_only = false
    @path = nil
  else
    @name = name['name']
    @value = Array(name['value'])
    @domain = name['domain']
    @expires = name['expires']
    @secure = name['secure'] || false
    @http_only = name['http_only'] || false
    @path = name['path']
  end

  raise ArgumentError, "`name' required" unless @name

  # simple support for IE
  unless @path
    %r|^(.*/)|.match(ENV['SCRIPT_NAME'])
    @path = ($1 or '')
  end

  super(@value)
end

Cookie.new(name = '', *value)

Source Code

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