CodingEasycod-g1029

Subject Protocol cookie parsingLevel Entry–Mid~15 minCommon in Networking & APIs · Algorithms & data structures interviewsIndustries Software development

Question

Parse an HTTP Cookie header value into a dict. The header is a string of '; '-separated pairs like 'sessionId=abc123; theme=dark'. Each pair is 'name=value'; a bare token with no '=' maps to an empty-string value. Trim surrounding whitespace from names and values. Return an empty dict for an empty header.

Implement

parse_cookies(header: str) → dict

Examples

in["sessionId=abc123; theme=dark"]out{"theme":"dark","sessionId":"abc123"}

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