John J. Lee wrote: > "Vlad Dogaru" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I am trying to use cookies and Python to create a simple login example. > > But I am very disoriented at the existence of two cookie libraries, > > namely Cookie and cookielib. I have seen examples of setting cookies > [...] > > From the cookielib docs: > > http://docs.python.org/lib/module-cookielib.html > > | The cookielib module defines classes for automatic handling of HTTP > | cookies. It is useful for accessing web sites that require small > | pieces of data - cookies - to be set on the client machine by an HTTP > | response from a web server, and then returned to the server in later > | HTTP requests. > > (note the *accessing* there) > > [...] > > | Module Cookie: HTTP cookie classes, principally useful for server-side > | code. The cookielib and Cookie modules do not depend on each > | other. > > > Module cookielib is for web client code (writing code that works like > a browser). Module Cookie is for server-side code (writing code to > make a web site work). You don't make it entirely clear which you're > doing, but it sounds like the latter.
I am trying to write a simple login script. I understand (or rather I think I understand) how to set a cookie with the Cookie module. My problem is getting the cookies that are currently set. How can I do that? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list