Re: reading cookies into rpg-cgi

Brad,

who's going to be selling it now that MC is gone?

On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Brad Stone wrote:

> Mark,
>
> I have a service program wrapper for cookie reading/writing.
> It makes things VERY easy to do.  It's part of my next book,
> but I can get it to you if you want.  Email me privatly and
> I'll get it out to you (and anyone else who wants).
>
> The only thing I ask is when my next book comes out, you buy
> it.  :)
>
> Brad
>
> On Tue, 4 Sep 2001 11:01:31 -0500
>  "Mark A. Manske" <mmanske@minter-weisman.com> wrote:
> > I have looked over some things, but I do not have a clear
> > understanding of
> > "how" I can read a cookie into my RPG
> > program to process a "basket".  Am I missing something
> > obvious, or is it
> > more complex than that???
> >
> > I can tell that you can get the cookie, return it as a
> > string - but say I
> > have an apply button; and within
> > the cookies I have multiple records to update, how do I
> > set the string up so
> > that the RPG can read in the data??
> >
> > Also the cookie would need the following fields to work
> > effectively for me
> > (item#/amount/percent/qty/dept#/sku#)
> > I would also want the cookies to expire within an hour or
> > less, and the
> > examples I have found do not really tell
> > me how to put in the time formulas I need; they are
> > either set back so they
> > expire or set so far up that they really
> > never expire...
> >
> > Any suggestions as to where to look to feel more
> > comfortable with cookies (I
> > have Brad's book, it is a good start,
> > but I was hoping for an example that was more complex -
> > unless I am over
> > complicating this by my un-easiness
> > with this "new" language of JavaScript and working with
> > cookies)
> >
> > TIA
> >
> >
> > Mark A. Manske
> > Minter-Weisman
> > Sr. Project Lead
> > http://www.minter-weisman.com
> > mailto:mmanske@minter-weisman.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> Bradley V. Stone
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