[whatwg] HTML Cookie API

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Nicholas Zakas <nzakas at yahoo-inc.com> wrote:
> Even though there can be multiple cookies with the same name on a single document, this most frequently occurs due to error rather than intention. I've never received a YUI bug report about this occurrence though I have considered returning an array of values instead of just the first value in this case. I might just go do that now. :)
>
> My initial comment still remains: retrieving the value of a single named cookie seems to be a much more common use case than retrieving all cookies. You can choose to solve the duplicate cookie name issue in a number of ways, but not providing a way to access a cookie by name seems like a flaw in this design.

Done.  I've made the API return the first cookie that matches the
specified name.  If a web developer wants to get all the cookies, I've
added a getAllCookies() API.

Adam

Received on Wednesday, 24 February 2010 18:08:44 UTC