Well, here's what I have to do to get direct access to values from the
original cookie hash:
my $cookies = Apache::Cookie->fetch;
my %hash = defined $cookies->{'session'} ? $cookies->{'session'}->value :
undef;
Strange. Thanks for the lead.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Perrin Harkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 2:41 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Cc: modperl
>Subject: Re: Apache::Cookie
>
>
>On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 09:05, cap wrote:
>> i have an application that uses CGI and sets the cookie values
>as a hashref.
>> im then attempting to retreive the values with Apache::Cookie with:
>>
>> $cookies = Apache::Cookie->fetch;
>>
>> $ccokies is a hashref so i should be able to get the individual
>values with:
>>
>> $cookies->{uid};
>>
>> right? however, this doesn't appear to work.
>
>I see the problem. There is mistake in the Apache::Cookie
>documentation, but the correct way to do this is shown in the mod_perl
>guide:
>http://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/guide/porting.html#Converting_to_us
>e_Apache_Perl_Modules
>
>Change your last line to this:
>
>my $uid = defined $cookies->{'uid'} ? $cookies->{'uid'}->value() :
>undef;
>
>- Perrin
>
