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authorGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2010-08-01 09:06:34 (GMT)
committerGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2010-08-01 09:06:34 (GMT)
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#8826: the "expires" attribute value is a date string with spaces, but apparently not all user-agents put it in quotes. Handle that as a special case.
-rw-r--r--Lib/http/cookies.py2
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_http_cookies.py10
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS2
3 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/http/cookies.py b/Lib/http/cookies.py
index c36c494..9e51b67 100644
--- a/Lib/http/cookies.py
+++ b/Lib/http/cookies.py
@@ -434,6 +434,8 @@ _CookiePattern = re.compile(r"""
(?P<val> # Start of group 'val'
"(?:[^\\"]|\\.)*" # Any doublequoted string
| # or
+ \w{3},\s[\w\d-]{9,11}\s[\d:]{8}\sGMT # Special case for "expires" attr
+ | # or
""" + _LegalCharsPatt + r"""* # Any word or empty string
) # End of group 'val'
\s*;? # Probably ending in a semi-colon
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_http_cookies.py b/Lib/test/test_http_cookies.py
index 43ca9f5..b008e0f 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_http_cookies.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_http_cookies.py
@@ -76,6 +76,16 @@ class CookieTests(unittest.TestCase):
# can't test exact output, it always depends on current date/time
self.assertTrue(C.output().endswith('GMT'))
+ # loading 'expires'
+ C = cookies.SimpleCookie()
+ C.load('Customer="W"; expires=Wed, 01-Jan-2010 00:00:00 GMT')
+ self.assertEqual(C['Customer']['expires'],
+ 'Wed, 01-Jan-2010 00:00:00 GMT')
+ C = cookies.SimpleCookie()
+ C.load('Customer="W"; expires=Wed, 01-Jan-98 00:00:00 GMT')
+ self.assertEqual(C['Customer']['expires'],
+ 'Wed, 01-Jan-98 00:00:00 GMT')
+
# 'max-age'
C = cookies.SimpleCookie('Customer="WILE_E_COYOTE"')
C['Customer']['max-age'] = 10
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 52cbabd..96ff051 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ Core and Builtins
Library
-------
+- Issue #8826: Properly load old-style "expires" attribute in http.cookies.
+
- Issue #1690103: Fix initial namespace for code run with trace.main().
- Issue #7395: Fix tracebacks in pstats interactive browser.