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EWS::cookies is an object class interface to HTTP cookies. EWS::cookies creates a wrapper around the methods and attributes used to manipulate HTTP cookies.

EWS::cookies provides the following class methods and attributes:

Class Methods

Public Methods	Description
new	Returns a blessed reference to a new cookies object.
cookies	Fetch all cookie values from class structure.
cookiesref	Fetch reference to cookie hash.
expirationDate	Set the expiration time of the cookie as an offset from the current time.
find	Check if a cookie already exists.
names	Return the cookie names.
read	Read the current cookie values and return them in a hash.
readref	Read the current cookie values into an internal hash and return a reference pointer to the hash.
reset	Reset cookie parameters.
send	Send the cookie parameters set in the set method to the user-agent.
sendall	Send the values in all cookie hashes to the requesting browser.
sendheader	Sends an HTML header to the browser.
sendmodified	Send the values in cookie hashes containing modified=1 to the user-agent.
set	Allows setting of any (or all) of the parameters of a cookie.

Class Attributes

Public Attributes	Description
domain	Expects the name of the cookie to evaluate and an optional domain to set.
expire	Expects the name of the cookie to evaluate and an optional expires to set.
isCookie	Check for existence of a cookie.
modified	Expects the name of the cookie to evaluate and an optional modified to set
path	Expects the name of the cookie to evaluate and an optional path to set.
Revision	Returns the revision number.
secure	Expects the name of the cookie to evaluate and an optional secure to set.
valid	Returns defined if a cookie exists, and undef if no cookies are found.
value	Expects the name of the cookie to evaluate.
Version	Returns the version number of cookies.pm.