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Doc Bug #8453 Do not base64-encode cookies contents - please add to the manual
Submitted: 2000-12-28 10:40 UTC Modified: 2001-01-03 14:31 UTC
From: otto at kekalainen dot net Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Documentation problem
PHP Version: 4.0.4 OS: all
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2000-12-28 10:40 UTC] otto at kekalainen dot net 
This is not an actual bug, but it might behave as one.

Cookies will not be set, if their contents are base64_encoded, since the encoding seems to have characters which mess up the cookie.

So, if a user fills cookies with a bit more complicated data, he/she might want to encode it as e.g. hexa-decimals.

This could be mentioned in the PHP-documentation.

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 [2001-01-03 14:31 UTC] jmoore@php.net 
THis is more suited to the user notes (You can add it yourself). I dont really think it has a palce in the actual manual. THere are hundreds of warnings like this we could include but dont.

James
 
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