A rack middleware library that allows for cookies to be passed through form parameters. Specifically, it merges the specified form parameters into the Cookie header of an http request. It gets around the problem of having a flash application which interacts with a web application that uses cookie based sessions.

Contributing

The environment can be configured by using bundler.

gem bundle or rake setup:contrib

Usage

Rails Example:

# In rails initializer
Rack::CookieMonster.configure do |c|
  c.eat :_session_id
  c.eat :user_credentials
  c.share_with /^(Adobe|Shockwave) Flash/
  c.share_with "Burt"
end

Rack::CookieMonster.configure_for_rails

Rack Example:

class CookieMonsterApplication
  def call(env)
    cookies = ::Rack::Request.new(env).cookies
    res = ::Rack::Response.new
    res.write %{
      <html>
        <head>
          <title>Form</title>
        </head>
        <body>
          <form action="/" method="post">
            Cookie 1: <input type="text" name="cookie_1" />
            Cookie 2: <input type="text" name="cookie_2" />
            Non Cookie: <input type="text" name="non_cookie" />
            <input type="submit" />
          </form>
        </body>
        #{
          cookies.map do |k,v|
            "<p>#{k} - #{v}</p>"
          end.join("\n")
        }
      </html>
    }
    res.finish
  end
end

use Rack::CookieMonster, {
  :cookies => [:cookie_1, :cookie_2],
  :share_with => /firefox/i
}
run CookieMonsterApplication.new

Rack Cookie Monster

Contributing

Usage