From 3dc1ede8718056cf107abf06f6f213cbe23374c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adrian Holovaty <adrian@holovaty.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 01:17:39 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fixed #236 -- Added HttpResponse.delete_cookie() method.

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@668 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
---
 django/utils/httpwrappers.py | 6 ++++++
 docs/request_response.txt    | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/django/utils/httpwrappers.py b/django/utils/httpwrappers.py
index 107b63d40b..8b50688f66 100644
--- a/django/utils/httpwrappers.py
+++ b/django/utils/httpwrappers.py
@@ -175,6 +175,12 @@ class HttpResponse:
             if val is not None:
                 self.cookies[key][var.replace('_', '-')] = val
 
+    def delete_cookie(self, key):
+        try:
+            self.cookies[key]['max_age'] = 0
+        except KeyError:
+            pass
+
     def get_content_as_string(self, encoding):
         """
         Returns the content as a string, encoding it from a Unicode object if
diff --git a/docs/request_response.txt b/docs/request_response.txt
index a004b99126..5b01fc3482 100644
--- a/docs/request_response.txt
+++ b/docs/request_response.txt
@@ -286,6 +286,10 @@ Methods
 
     .. _`cookie Morsel`: http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/morsel-objects.html
 
+``delete_cookie(key)``
+    Deletes the cookie with the given key. Fails silently if the key doesn't
+    exist.
+
 ``get_content_as_string(encoding)``
     Returns the content as a Python string, encoding it from a Unicode object
     if necessary.