method to manually set the session cookie

doc/couch_client-database.md

@@ -21,6 +21,12 @@ Example : as the previous one, but using cookie based authentification
 
     $client = new couchClient("http://couchAdmin:secret@my.server.com:5984/","mydb", array("cookie_auth"=>TRUE) );
 
+You can also set manually the session cookie.
+
+Example : manually setting the session cookie :
+
+    $client = new couchClient("http://my.server.com:5984/","mydb");
+    $client->setSessionCookie("AuthSession=Y291Y2g6NENGNDgzNzY6Gk0NjM-UKxhpX_IyiH-C-9yXY44");
 
 
 

lib/couch.php

@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ class couch {
 	* @var array allowed HTTP methods for REST dialog
 	*/
 	protected $HTTP_METHODS = array('GET','POST','PUT','DELETE','COPY');
+
 	/**
 	* @var resource HTTP server socket
 	* @see _connect()
@@ -93,6 +94,15 @@ public function options() {
 		return $this->options;
 	}
 
+	/**
+	* set the session cookie to send in the headers 
+	* @param string $cookie the session cookie ( example : AuthSession=Y291Y2g6NENGNDgzNz )
+	*/
+	public function setSessionCookie ( $cookie ) {
+		$this->sessioncookie = $cookie;
+		return $this;
+	}
+
 
 	/**
 	* return a part of the data source name

lib/couchClient.php

@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ public function __construct($dsn, $dbname, $options = array() ) {
 				if ( strpos($line,"Set-Cookie: ") === 0 ) {
 					$line = substr($line,12);
 					$line = explode("; ",$line,2);
-					$this->sessioncookie = reset($line);
+					$this->setSessionCookie(reset($line));
 					break;
 				}
 			}