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Reputation: 1087

Django is adding quotes to cookies with colons

I run:

response.set_cookie(key, value=value, expires=expires, path=path, domain=domain)

When the value is: aa:aa
The cookie value is: "aa:aa"

When the value is: aa
The cookie value is: aa

I need to prevent django from adding quotes when there are colons in the value

Upvotes: 9

Views: 1824

Answers (2)

Carlos RA
Carlos RA

Reputation: 21

Sometimes if you need that your cookies been read from other sites, you can override the response after the set_cookie.

Python < 3.7

response.set_cookie(key, value)
response.cookies[key].coded_value = value

Python >= 3.7 Use set()

response.set_cookie(key, value)
response.cookies[key].set(key, value, value)

Upvotes: 2

OM Bharatiya
OM Bharatiya

Reputation: 2160

When setting the value into cookie, just encode it using urllib.parse.quote_plus() or urllib.parse.quote(). e.g.

value = urllib.parse.quote_plus(value)
response.set_cookie(key, value=value, expires=expires, path=path, domain=domain)

And while getting value from cookie, decode it back using urllib.parse.unquote_plus() or urllib.parse.unquote() respectively. e.g.

if key in request.COOKIES:
    value = urllib.parse.unquote_plus(request.COOKIES[key])

Upvotes: 5

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