cow_cookie:parse_cookie(3)

Name

cow_cookie:parse_cookie - Parse a cookie header

Description

parse_cookie(Cookie :: binary())
    -> parse_cookie(Cookie, #{})
parse_cookie(Cookie :: binary(), Opts)
    -> [{binary(), binary()}]

Opts :: #{max_cookies => non_neg_integer()}

Parse a cookie header.

Arguments

Cookie

The cookie header value.

Return value

A list of cookie name/value pairs is returned on success.

An exception is thrown in the event of a parse error.

Changelog

• 2.19: Function parse_cookie/2 introduced with a max_cookies option.
• 2.9: Fixes to the parser may lead to potential incompatibilities. A cookie name starting with $ is no longer ignored. A cookie without a = will be parsed as the value of the cookie named <<>> (empty name).
• 1.0: Function introduced.

Examples

Cookies = cow_cookie:parse_cookie(CookieHd).

See also

cow_cookie(3), cow_cookie:parse_set_cookie(3), cow_cookie:cookie(3), cow_cookie:setcookie(3)