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Rusty_Hale_8009
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Apr 26, 2005

Grab value out of cookie and store it in a header variable

I have information that resides in a cookie:

 

 

JetNetUser=XXXXXXXX

 

 

I want to grab this information out of the cookie and insert it into the http header and store the value (XXXXXXXX) into a variable called

 

auth-user

 

 

What would the syntax be to do this?

 

 

Thanks in advance for your help.

 

 

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  • unRuleY_95363's avatar
    unRuleY_95363
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    Apr 26, 2005
     
 when HTTP_REQUEST { 
    set auth_user [HTTP::cookie JetNetUser] 
    HTTP::header insert JetNetUser $auth_user 
 }

    It might be wise to avoid the hyphen character in a variable name as it makes referencing it a bit more cumbersome (you need to always enclose it in braces, eg ${auth-user}). I used the underscore character instead in the above example.

  • JRahm's avatar
    JRahm
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    Apr 26, 2005
    I understood the question to mean that JetNetUser was part of the cookie. If that's the case, try 

    when HTTP_REQUEST {  
    set auth_user [findstr [HTTP::cookie ] "JetNetUser" 11 "&" ]  
    HTTP::header insert  $auth_user  
  }

    I'm assuming here the terminator of your string will be &, so you'll need to change this if it's not.