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jeff_mccombs_47
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Jun 10, 2009

HTTP::cookie exists v.s. [string length[HTTP::cookie NAME]] ?

So I'm playing around with universal persistence, as we have a new project getting ready to roll out that is pretty heavy with ajax/dwr. I was thinking on using the universal persistence mode against ...
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hoolio
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Jun 15, 2009
Hi jsmccombs,

Can you post the actual full rule you were testing and the version you were testing on? I tried the following on 9.3.1, 9.4.7, 10.0.0 and didn't see the issue you're describing: 

 
    log local0. "path: [HTTP::path]" 
    log local0. "\[HTTP::header value Cookie\]: [HTTP::header value Cookie]" 
    log local0. "\[HTTP::cookie exists JSESSIONID\]: [HTTP::cookie exists JSESSIONID]" 
    log local0. "\[string length \[HTTP::cookie JSESSIONID\]\]: [string length [HTTP::cookie JSESSIONID]]" 
 }

: path: /no_JSESSIONID_cookie

: [HTTP::header value Cookie]:

: [HTTP::cookie exists JSESSIONID]: 0

: [string length [HTTP::cookie JSESSIONID]]: 0

: path: /JSESSIONID_cookie_without_a_value

: [HTTP::header value Cookie]: JSESSIONID=

: [HTTP::cookie exists JSESSIONID]: 0

: [string length [HTTP::cookie JSESSIONID]]: 0

: path: /JSESSIONID_cookie_with_a_value

: [HTTP::header value Cookie]: JSESSIONID=test

: [HTTP::cookie exists JSESSIONID]: 1

: [string length [HTTP::cookie JSESSIONID]]: 4

It looks like in 10.0.0, the bug where [HTTP::cookie exists "cookie_name"] returns zero with a cookie with no value (JSESSIONID=) was fixed.

Aaron