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<refentry id="VS-B-9">
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>Basic VSP Programming</refentrytitle>
<refmiscinfo>tutorial</refmiscinfo>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>Header Parsing Functions</refname>
<refpurpose>Header Parsing Functions (Cookie Example)</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsect1 id="VS-B-9a">
<title>Preliminaries</title>
<itemizedlist mark="bullet">
<listitem>The HTTP request header contains lines of request information.</listitem>
<listitem>Every user-agent (browser) sends at least one request line to the Web server.</listitem>
<listitem>The "lines" argument in VSPs is an array of the user-agent request lines.</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id="VS-B-9b">
<title>Methods for accessing the request parameters</title>
<itemizedlist mark="bullet">
<listitem>A specific attribute can be accessed with the http_request_header() function.</listitem>
<listitem>The header lines can be accessed with aref() function.</listitem>
<listitem>Parsing the header line can be done with the split_and_decode() function.</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id="VS-B-9c">
<title>Cookie Demo</title>
<para>This example shows how to set a cookie in the user-agent, and displaying a cookie string when retrieved.</para>
<itemizedlist mark="bullet">
<listitem>Setting the cookie is done with the http_header() function. (see also:VS-B-5)</listitem>
<listitem>Retrieving the cookie string is done with http_request_header() function.</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</refsect1>
</refentry>
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