Module `Cookie`Source

The Cookie module implements HTTP Cookies sent in a 'Cookie' header in a http request or 'Set-Cookie' headers added in a http response.

The module closely follows the HTTP Cookie specification as defined in RFC6265 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6265.

Sourcetype t

Represents either a Cookie name-value in 'Cookie' request header or a set of cookie attributes in 'Set-Cookie' response header.

Sourcetype error = private [>

| `Cookie_name_error of string
(*
Denotes 'cookie name' validation and parsing errors.
*)
| `Cookie_value_error of string
(*
Denotes 'cookie value' validation and parsing errors.
*)
| `Cookie_domain_av_error of string
(*
Denotes 'cookie domain' attribue value validation and parsing errors.
*)
| `Cookie_path_error of string
(*
Denotes 'cookie path' attribute value validation and parsing errors.
*)
| `Cookie_max_age_error of string
(*
Denotes 'cookie max-age' attribute value validation errors.
*)
| `Cookie_extension_error of string
(*
Denotes 'cookie extension' attribute value validation errors.
*)

]

Sourceval sexp_of_error : error -> Sexplib0.Sexp.t

Source

val create : 
  name:string ->
  value:string ->
  ?sanitize_name:bool ->
  ?sanitize_value:bool ->
  ?path:string ->
  ?domain:string ->
  ?expires:Ptime.t ->
  ?max_age:int ->
  ?secure:bool ->
  ?http_only:bool ->
  ?same_site:Same_site.t ->
  ?extension:string ->
  unit ->
  (t, error) result

create ... () parse a cookie instance t from given value parameters. If the given values parses successfully, then Ok t is returned. If an error is encountered while parsing then an Error err is returned.

~sanitize_value if true then value is double quoted if it starts or ends in a ' '(space) or a ','(comma) character.

~sanitize_name if true and name contains '\n' or '\r' character then it is replaced by '-' character.

Sourceval sexp_of_t : t -> Sexplib0.Sexp.t

Sourceval name : t -> string

name t returns a cookie name. See https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6265#section-4.1.1 'cookie-name' definition for details.

Sourceval value : t -> string

value t returns a cookie value. See 'cookie-value' definition in https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6265#section-4.1.1

Sourceval path : t -> string option

path t returns cookie path attribute. See https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6265#section-5.2.4

Sourceval domain : t -> string option

domain t returns cookie domain attribute. See https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6265#section-4.1.2.3

Sourceval expires : t -> Ptime.t option

expires t returns a coookie expires attribute. See https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6265#section-4.1.2.1.

Additionally, the date format followed is as specified in https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-3.3.1

Sourceval max_age : t -> int option

max_age t returns a cookie max_age attribute. See https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6265#section-4.1.2.2.

Additionally, see 'max-age-av' in https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6265#section-4.1.1

Sourceval secure : t -> bool option

secure t returns a secure attribute. See https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6265#section-4.1.2.5

Sourceval http_only : t -> bool option

http_only t returns a http_only attribute. See https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6265#section-4.1.2.6

Sourceval same_site : t -> Same_site.t option

same_site t returns a same_site attribute. See https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-cookie-same-site-00.

Sourceval extension : t -> string option

extension t returns a cookie extension value. See k https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6265#section-4.1.1

Sourceval of_cookie_header : string -> (t, error) result list

of_cookie_header s parses s - a string value which represents HTTP 'Cookie' header value as defined in https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6265#section-4.2 and returns a list of Cookies. Examples of s is SID=31d4d96e407aad42; lang=en-US. Here we define 2 cookies 'SID' and 'lang-en'.

Sourceval to_set_cookie_header_value : t -> string

to_set_header c serializes c into a string which can be used as value for HTTP 'Set-Cookie' header.

Sourceval to_cookie_header_value : t -> string

to_cookie_header c serializes c into a string which can used as value for HTTP 'Cookie' header.

package cookies

Module CookieSource

Module `Cookie`Source