H,, On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 11:19:18 +0530, "Saurabh Nanda" <saurabhnanda@gmail.com> wrote: [Please use the mailing list. See Cc.]

One small question, why the difference between behaviours of cookie-in and cookie-out functions? The former returns the value whereas the latter returns a cookie object.

The server sends a full "Set-Cookie" header with (potentially) "expires", "path", "domain", and "secure" attributes, while the client only sends a "Cookie" header with names and values. http://wp.netscape.com/newsref/std/cookie_spec.html I don't think it would make sense to wrap these incoming cookies into full-blown cookie objects.

Further, to get the cookie value from the cookie object one has to use (slot-value cookie-object 'hunchentoot::value) as the "value" symbol is not external.

There's an exported accessor COOKIE-VALUE, see the documentation: http://weitz.de/hunchentoot/#cookie-value Cheers, Edi.