cgi_cookie_clear(3)

💖 cgi_cookie_clear — bestie, let's ghost that cookie 💖

okay so this is cgi_cookie_clear(3), part of the cgi/cgi.h lineup in ClearSilver. no cap, it's literally the "it's not me, it's you" of HTTP cookies. let's get into it 🍓

✨ NAME ✨

cgi_cookie_clear — clear browser cookie 🍪💀

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <cgi/cgi.h>

NEOERR *cgi_cookie_clear (CGI *cgi, const char *name, const char *domain,
                          const char *path);

like, that's the whole vibe right there. one function, four args, one NEOERR * coming back at you 🫶

🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• cgi — a CGI struct. the main character, fr.
• name — the cookie name to clear. tell me who you're ghosting bestie 👀
• domain — the domain to clear, NULL for none.
• path — the cookie's path.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so cgi_cookie_clear sends back a Set-Cookie string that will attempt to stop a browser from continuing to send back a cookie. the energy is very "we're done here 💅".

not me being real with you: the cookie has to match in name, domain, and path — all three, no shortcuts, no half-matching. and honestly? the luck of the Irish has to be with you for this to work all the time 😭🍀 browsers are gonna browser.

but at the least — and this is the part that lowkey saves you — it will make the browser send back a cookie with no value, which the ClearSilver cookie parsing code will ignore. so even on the flop attempts, it's giving "ignored" and that's enough. periodt. 🔥

💜 RETURN VALUE 💜

None. that's it. nothing comes back. it's giving silent treatment and honestly? iconic. 🙈

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the whole friend group, in order, no one left out:

• cgi_debug_init(3)
• cgi_parse(3)
• cgi_destroy(3)
• cgi_js_escape(3)
• cgi_html_escape_strfunc(3)
• cgi_register_strfuncs(3)
• cgi_output(3)
• parse_rfc2388(3)
• cgi_url_validate(3)
• open_upload(3)
• cgi_cs_init(3)
• cgi_url_escape_more(3)
• cgi_html_strip_strfunc(3)
• cgi_neo_error(3)
• cgi_redirect(3)
• cgi_filehandle(3)
• cgi_register_parse_cb(3)
• cgi_url_escape(3)
• cgi_init(3)
• cgi_redirect_uri(3)
• cgi_cookie_clear(3)
• cgi_url_unescape(3)
• cgi_vredirect(3)
• cgi_display(3)
• cgi_html_ws_strip(3)
• cgi_error(3)
• cgi_cookie_set(3)
• cgi_text_html_strfunc(3)
• cgi_cookie_authority

and that's the whole page bestie, go forth and clear those cookies ✨🍪

ClearSilver · 12 July 2007 · mwah, ty for reading, ily, go drink some water 🫶💖🌸