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Disecting Set-Cookie header with StringRegExp (half-solved)


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I'm attempting to take the string a server returns in the Set-Cookie header and break it up into its bits and pieces and have come pretty close with this.

Set-Cookie string looks like this: "Name=value; expires=Thu, 02-Sep-2010 16:44:12 GMT; path=/ Name=value; expires=Thu, 02-Sep-2010 16:44:12 GMT; path=/ secure Name2=Value2; expires=Wed, 02-Sep-2010 16:44:12 GMT; path=/ HttpOnly name3=value3; expires=Thu, 02-Sep-2010 16:44:12 GMT; path=/ secure HttpOnly"

([^=]+)=([^;]+); (?:(path)=(\S+)\s?)?

This will work for all cookies without the HttpOnly and secure flag.

([^=]+)=([^;]+); (?:(path)=(\S+)\s?)?(?:(secure)?\s?|(HttpOnly)?\s?){0,2}

Is what I came up with for the flags, but for some reason it doesn't work.

Could some sre master out there point out the error of my ways?

Thanks

BAM5

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This pattern seems to do what you want in the example you give, but would probably need some sophistication to work with pathnames having whitespaces in them.

(?i)([^=]+)=([^;]+);\s([^=]+)=([^;]+);\s([^=]+)=([^ ]+)\s(secure)?\s?(HttpOnly)?\s*

(Use mode 3 of course)

EDIT: I forgot to mention that I take the presence of namexxx=yyy expires=ttt and path=zzz for obligatory.

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Ah, namexxx=yyy expires=ttt and path=zzz are all required for cookies, but there are other values that can be added in optionally as well (such as domain and max-age), so unfortunately, your sre will not work for me.

A modification of the second pattern I posted almost works, except for when the httponly flag is up and secure isn't, it'll cause an blank element in the array.

Modification: ([^=]+)=([^;]+); (?:(path)=(\S+)\s?)?(?:(secure)\s?|(HttpOnly)\s?){0,2}

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The more optional entities are to be parsed (furthermore using varying syntax) the more complicated and potentially fragile your SRE will become.

If I had to do it myself, I wouldn't rely on a single SRE to do it entirely in one shot, as some new option/syntax is likely to make it fail almost anytime soon. I would dissect things with a more pedestrian approach. Except if you have millions of such cookies to routinely process, the added time spent (if any) is most certainly unnoticeable.

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