Re: CGI::Minimal and Cookies

Ben Morrow wrote:
> Quoth xhoster@gmail.com:
> > Ben Morrow wrote:
> > > Quoth John Bokma :
> > > > From the documentation of CGI::Minimal: "See 'CGI::Cookie' for
> > > > cookie generation". Which sounds like a lot of fun, except that
> > > > CGI::Cookie does:
> > > >
> > > > use CGI;
> > > >
> > > > Which probably makes use CGI::Minimal pointless. Or am I wrong?
> > >
> > > Which version? I have 1.26 here, and it doesn't use CGI. It does use
> > > CGI::Util, which contains a group of routines for doing URI-escaping
> > > and such; maybe older versions just used CGI instead, and the code's
> > > been refactored?
> >
> > I see it there, in the next line after the use CGI::Util. Maybe you
> > deleted use CGI in your local copy?
>
> No, certainly not... :)
> Further investigation reveals that line was added in CGI::Cookie 1.27,
> in CGI.pm-3.17.

It looks like they added it in CGI-3.16, but forgot to update the version
in Cookie, so it still says it is 1.26. Or maybe I don't understand how
these bundle things work.

> I wonder why...

It looks like when they added the "bake" method, they made it use a method
from CGI, so added it.

Unfortunately you can't prevent a "use" from happening via subclassing.



Xho

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Re: CGI::Minimal and Cookies

xhoster@gmail.com wrote:

> Unfortunately you can't prevent a "use" from happening via
> subclassing.

I've already considered creating a nearly empty CGI.pm, and making sure
it's loaded first >:->.

Anyway, I contacted the author, and hopefully it's fixed in the near
future. It's not that urgent (to me).



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Re: CGI::Minimal and Cookies

Quoth xhoster@gmail.com:
> Ben Morrow wrote:

>
> It looks like they added it in CGI-3.16, but forgot to update the version
> in Cookie, so it still says it is 1.26. Or maybe I don't understand how
> these bundle things work.

Yes, it does. Bad Lincoln, no cookie. (SCNR)

It's annoying, especially since $cookie->bake is AFAICS equivalent
to $CGI->header(-cookie => $cookie), and the docs for CGI::Cookie state
it can be used independantly.

> > I wonder why...
>
> It looks like when they added the "bake" method, they made it use a method
> from CGI, so added it.
>
> Unfortunately you can't prevent a "use" from happening via subclassing.

{
local $INC{'CGI.pm'} = $0;
use CGI::Cookie;
}

perhaps with a

{
package CGI;
use autouse CGI => 'header';
}

as well. Of course, it will break if you call the ->bake method, so
don't do that.

Ben

Re: CGI::Minimal and Cookies

Ben Morrow wrote:

> Quoth xhoster@gmail.com:
>> Ben Morrow wrote:
>

>> Unfortunately you can't prevent a "use" from happening via
>> subclassing.
>
> {
> local $INC{'CGI.pm'} = $0;
> use CGI::Cookie;
> }
>
> perhaps with a
>
> {
> package CGI;
> use autouse CGI => 'header';
> }
>
> as well. Of course, it will break if you call the ->bake method, so
> don't do that.

Heh, since I bake my cookies via Template::Toolkit (Set-Cookie: ... in (my
own) http_headers.tt), I don't care about that. Thanks for the work-around
suggestions.

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