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  • cgi/core.rb

CGI::QueryExtension

Mixin module that provides the following:

  1. Access to the CGI environment variables as methods. See documentation to the CGI class for a list of these variables. The methods are exposed by removing the leading HTTP_ (if it exists) and downcasing the name. For example, auth_type will return the environment variable AUTH_TYPE, and accept will return the value for HTTP_ACCEPT.

  2. Access to cookies, including the cookies attribute.

  3. Access to parameters, including the params attribute, and overloading [] to perform parameter value lookup by key.

  4. The initialize_query method, for initializing the above mechanisms, handling multipart forms, and allowing the class to be used in “offline” mode.

Attributes

cookies[RW]

Get the cookies as a hash of cookie-name=>Cookie pairs.

files[R]

Get the uploaded files as a hash of name=>values pairs

params[R]

Get the parameters as a hash of name=>values pairs, where values is an Array.

Public Instance Methods

[](key) click to toggle source

Get the value for the parameter with a given key.

If the parameter has multiple values, only the first will be retrieved; use params to get the array of values.

 
               # File cgi/core.rb, line 702
def [](key)
  params = @params[key]
  return '' unless params
  value = params[0]
  if @multipart
    if value
      return value
    elsif defined? StringIO
      StringIO.new("".force_encoding(Encoding::ASCII_8BIT))
    else
      Tempfile.new("CGI",encoding: Encoding::ASCII_8BIT)
    end
  else
    str = if value then value.dup else "" end
    str
  end
end
has_key?(*args) click to toggle source

Returns true if a given query string parameter exists.

 
               # File cgi/core.rb, line 726
def has_key?(*args)
  @params.has_key?(*args)
end
Also aliased as: key?, include?
include?(*args) click to toggle source
Alias for: has_key?
key?(*args) click to toggle source
Alias for: has_key?
keys(*args) click to toggle source

Return all query parameter names as an array of String.

 
               # File cgi/core.rb, line 721
def keys(*args)
  @params.keys(*args)
end
multipart?() click to toggle source

Returns whether the form contained multipart/form-data

 
               # File cgi/core.rb, line 694
def multipart?
  @multipart
end
params=(hash) click to toggle source

Set all the parameters.

 
               # File cgi/core.rb, line 463
def params=(hash)
  @params.clear
  @params.update(hash)
end
raw_cookie() click to toggle source

Get the raw cookies as a string.

raw_cookie2() click to toggle source

Get the raw RFC2965 cookies as a string.

 
               # File cgi/core.rb, line 448
def raw_cookie2
  env_table["HTTP_COOKIE2"]
end