Allow setting HttpResponse cookie expiry times with datetime objects.

Patch from SmileyChris. Fixed #7770.

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@13809 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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Malcolm Tredinnick 2010-09-12 20:52:49 +00:00
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* ``max_age`` should be a number of seconds, or ``None`` (default) if
the cookie should last only as long as the client's browser session.
* ``expires`` should be a string in the format
``"Wdy, DD-Mon-YY HH:MM:SS GMT"``.
If ``expires`` is not specified, it will be calculated.
* ``expires`` should either be a string in the format
``"Wdy, DD-Mon-YY HH:MM:SS GMT"`` or a ``datetime.datetime`` object
in UTC. If ``expires`` is a ``datetime`` object, the ``max_age``
will be calculated.
* Use ``domain`` if you want to set a cross-domain cookie. For example,
``domain=".lawrence.com"`` will set a cookie that is readable by
the domains www.lawrence.com, blogs.lawrence.com and