Question

In my getCookie function, I’d like to display the name AND the expiration-time of given cookie, but all I’ve been able to archive is the name of it, as a string.

The cookie is set, and expires as expected, I’d just like to show the remaining time of it, in a simple way.

def setCookie(request):
    cook = HttpResponseRedirect('/getCookie/')
    cook.set_cookie('theCookie', value='Dough', max_age=15)

    return cook

def getCookie(request):
    s=""
    if request.COOKIES.has_key('theCookie'):
        s += request.COOKIES['theCookie']
        #s += request.COOKIES['theCookie'].expires..? HERE?

    else:
        s="Sorry, your cookie has expired"
    return HttpResponse(s)

Answer 1

request.COOKIES only contains the key/value mapping of the parsed cookies. However request.META['HTTP_COOKIE'] contains the raw cookie string which can be parsed by the Python cookie.SimpleCookie class to get the max-age http://docs.python.org/library/cookie.html