[AWS] cookie

[David Marceau]

> Michal Morawski wrote:
> 
> I have the following problem:
> 
> Other server sent a cookie to client, then redirects cliebt to
> AWS. Then AWS should read the value of this cookie and behave
> properly.
> 
> Can I do it in  simply?
> 
> Micha? Morawski
> 
> 
First off AWS has an internal cookie handling facility provide via the
Session Handling see Section 3.3 of the AWS documentation.

I found this at:
http://www.le-berre.com/nsapi/nsapi.htm
That said you are talking about maybe communicating an apache or
netscape web server  which redirects a client along with a special
cookie.
HTTP Redirection

       How to redirect ? 

                 /*IE 4.0 could have problem with HTTP 302 answer which
contains a body. Corrected in NES 3.6 */
                 param_free( pblock_remove( "Location", rq->srvhdrs ) );
                 pblock_nvinsert( "Location", pszTo, rq->srvhdrs );
                 protocol_status( sn, rq, PROTOCOL_REDIRECT, NULL );
                 protocol_start_response( sn, rq ); return REQ_ABORTED; 


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       How to redirect with a cookie ? 

                 pblock_nvinsert( "Set-cookie", "Cook1=ROAD_RUNNER;
path=/; domain=.hp.com", rq->srvhdrs );
                 param_free( pblock_remove( "Location", rq->srvhdrs ) );
                 pblock_nvinsert( "Location", pszTo, rq->srvhdrs );
                 protocol_status( sn, rq, PROTOCOL_REDIRECT, NULL );
                 protocol_start_response( sn, rq );
                 return REQ_ABORTED; 



       How to show to user the URL that I am redirecting the browser to
? 

                 /* This tells the browser (well, NS Navigator at least)
to tell the user where
                  he's been redirected to, but without him having to
click a link */ 
                 protocol_status(sn,rq,PROTOCOL_REDIRECT,NULL);
                 /* We know where we're going, so we can force the type,
etc. */ 
                 param_free(pblock_remove("content-type", rq->srvhdrs)); 
                 pblock_nvinsert("content-type", "text/html",
rq->srvhdrs);
                 param_free(pblock_remove("path", rq->vars));
                 pblock_nvinsert("path", "/path/to/redirect.html",
rq->vars);
                 /* This allows the user to know where he went instead
of what he wanted */ 
                 param_free(pblock_remove("Location", rq->srvhdrs));
                 pblock_nvinsert("Location",
"http://myserver/redirect.html", rq->srvhdrs); 



       How to redirect on a POST? 

                 /* This function redirects POSTs to the script
"spam.cgi" to the
                  other function "echo.cgi". It doesn't tell the client
it's doing so, though. */
                 NSAPI_PUBLIC int cgi_redirect(pblock *pb,Session
*sn,Request *rq) {
                         FuncPtr F;
                         char *old = pblock_findval("uri",rq->reqpb);
                         char *find;

                         find = strstr(old,"spam.cgi");
                         if (find != NULL) {
                                
param_free(pblock_remove("path",rq->vars));
                                
pblock_nvinsert("path","/serverpath/cgi-bin/echo.cgi",rq->vars);
                                 F = func_find("send-cgi");
                                 return (F) (pb,sn,rq); 
                         } else { 
                                 return REQ_NOACTION;
                         }
                 }



       How to redirect with SSL? 

                 /*In some case (IE) redirection with SSL on could
failed,
                 to avoid this Set the content-length header*/
                 NSAPI_PUBLIC int cgi_redirect(pblock *pb,Session
*sn,Request *rq) {
                         pblock_nvinsert ("set-cookie", auth_cookie,
rq->srvhdrs);
                     pblock_nvinsert ("Location", redirect_url,
rq->srvhdrs);
                     pblock_nvinsert ("Content-Length", "221",
rq->srvhdrs);
                     protocol_status (sn, rq, PROTOCOL_REDIRECT, "Moved
Temporarily");
                     protocol_start_response (sn, rq);
                     return REQ_ABORTED;}


        Samples 
               NTrans by Josh Andrews, jrandrew@pepperdine.edu