How to decode a cookie from the header of a websocket connection handshake? (Ruby)

Question

I am running a Sinatra app within an EventMachine.run loop and in my ws.onopen method I wish to check the handshake heade

Answer 1

The answer is to use Rack::Utils.unencode.

I now have this working

Marshal.load(rack_cookie.coder.decode(Rack::Utils.unescape(bakesale.split('--').first))) decodes perfectly to the hash I need, allowing me to extract the user ID. W00t!

Many thanks to User spastorino over at https://github.com/rack/rack/issues/551 for pointing me in the right direction.