Allow cookie to contains several '='

close #1500

gluon/contrib/webclient.py

@@ -46,6 +46,17 @@ class WebClient(object):
         self.default_headers = default_headers
         self.sessions = {}
         self.session_regex = session_regex and re.compile(session_regex)
+        self.headers = {}
+
+    def _parse_headers_in_cookies(self):
+        self.cookies = {}
+        if 'set-cookie' in self.headers:
+            for item in self.headers['set-cookie'].split(','):
+                cookie = item[:item.find(';')]
+                pos = cookie.find('=')
+                key = cookie[:pos]
+                value = cookie[pos+1:]
+                self.cookies[key.strip()] = value.strip()
 
     def get(self, url, cookies=None, headers=None, auth=None):
         return self.post(url, data=None, cookies=cookies,
@@ -149,12 +160,7 @@ class WebClient(object):
             else:
                 raise error
 
-        # parse headers into cookies
-        self.cookies = {}
-        if 'set-cookie' in self.headers:
-            for item in self.headers['set-cookie'].split(','):
-                key, value = item[:item.find(';')].split('=')
-                self.cookies[key.strip()] = value.strip()
+        self._parse_headers_in_cookies()
 
         # check is a new session id has been issued, symptom of broken session
         if self.session_regex is not None:

gluon/tests/test_web.py

@@ -49,6 +49,24 @@ def stopwebserver():
     webserverprocess.terminate()
 
 
+class Cookie(unittest.TestCase):
+    def testParseMultipleEquals(self):
+        """ Test for issue #1500.
+        Ensure that a cookie containing one or more '=' is correctly parsed
+        """
+        client = WebClient()
+        client.headers['set-cookie'] = "key = value with one =;"
+        client._parse_headers_in_cookies()
+        self.assertIn("key", client.cookies)
+        self.assertEqual(client.cookies['key'], "value with one =")
+
+        client.headers['set-cookie'] = "key = value with one = and another one =;"
+        client._parse_headers_in_cookies()
+        client._parse_headers_in_cookies()
+        self.assertIn("key", client.cookies)
+        self.assertEqual(client.cookies['key'], "value with one = and another one =")
+
+
 class LiveTest(unittest.TestCase):
 
     @classmethod