More than one cookie with urllib2

[Rafael T. Ugolini]

Im trying to add more than one cookie with urllib2 but im not getting
much sucess.
An example...

req = urllib2.Request('http://localhost','j_username=psyca&j_password=******',{
'Cookie':'sab=contextUrl+https%3A%2F%2Fwwws.vexbr. com.br%2Fcafedev%2F%7CnasIp+10.50.0.3%7CneedCheckC ode+false%7ClocationId+85%7CautoLogout+false%7Cser viceProviderId+1%7CorigUrl+%2Findex.html%7CwebCont ext+cafedev%7CclientIp+192.168.1.107%7CnasId+vex_c afedev%7CloginType+0%7Cclass+class+com.wificom.sab .aaa.dto.SessionDTO%7CloginResumed+false%7CloggedI n+false%7Clanguage+en%7CpricingPlanId+0%7CsslPort+ 443%7CroamingPriceId+0%7CclientMac+00%3A07%3A95%3A D3%3A0C%3A7C%7CserverUrl+https%3A%2F%2Fwwws.vexbr. com.br%2F',
'Cookie':'JSESSIONID=DFA58D39389BA5E3CEB5C92F93087 92C',
'Content-type':'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
'Content-length':str(len('j_username=psyca&j_password=***** *'))}) urllib2.urlopen(req)

nebula:/home/nebuloso# nc -l -p 80
POST / HTTP/1.0
Host: localhost
User-agent: Python-urllib/2.1
Cookie: JSESSIONID=DFA58D39389BA5E3CEB5C92F9308792C
Content-length: 34
Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

j_username=psyca&j_password=******

---
and another thing , headers is a dic , you cant add 2 equal keys...
dunno how to do it.

Thanks.

[John J. Lee]

"Rafael T. Ugolini" <ra****@vexbr.com.br> writes:

Im trying to add more than one cookie with urllib2 but im not getting
much sucess.
An example...

req = urllib2.Request('http://localhost','j_username=psyca&j_password=******',{
'Cookie':'sab=contextUrl+https%3A%2F%2Fwwws.vexbr. com.br%2Fcafedev%2F%7CnasIp+10.50.0.3%7CneedCheckC ode+false%7ClocationId+85%7CautoLogout+false%7Cser viceProviderId+1%7CorigUrl+%2Findex.html%7CwebCont ext+cafedev%7CclientIp+192.168.1.107%7CnasId+vex_c afedev%7CloginType+0%7Cclass+class+com.wificom.sab .aaa.dto.SessionDTO%7CloginResumed+false%7CloggedI n+false%7Clanguage+en%7CpricingPlanId+0%7CsslPort+ 443%7CroamingPriceId+0%7CclientMac+00%3A07%3A95%3A D3%3A0C%3A7C%7CserverUrl+https%3A%2F%2Fwwws.vexbr. com.br%2F',
'Cookie':'JSESSIONID=DFA58D39389BA5E3CEB5C92F93087 92C',
'Content-type':'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
'Content-length':str(len('j_username=psyca&j_password=***** *'))}) urllib2.urlopen(req)

[...]

Blech.

and another thing , headers is a dic , you cant add 2 equal keys...
dunno how to do it.

[...]

If you want to stay sane, use this:

http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/ClientCookie

just say:

ClientCookie.urlopen(req)
and forget about cookies. If you insist on doing it by hand, though:
you need to join your key=value pairs with semicolons:

Cookie: foo=bar; spam=eggs
John

[Peter Hansen]

"John J. Lee" wrote:

If you want to stay sane, use this:

http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/ClientCookie

just say:

ClientCookie.urlopen(req)

and forget about cookies.

As the author, John might seem biased, but I'll weigh in with my own
praise for the product. His comment "if you want to stay sane" is
really on-the-mark here... Cookies _are_ insane, but ClientCookie at
least provides them a nice padded room in which to reside...

Thanks, John! :-)

-Peter

[Paul Rubin]

Peter Hansen <pe***@engcorp.com> writes:

As the author, John might seem biased, but I'll weigh in with my own
praise for the product. His comment "if you want to stay sane" is
really on-the-mark here... Cookies _are_ insane, but ClientCookie at
least provides them a nice padded room in which to reside...

Cookies aren't insane in concept, but their implementation leaves some
things to be desired.

[Peter Hansen]

Paul Rubin wrote:

Peter Hansen <pe***@engcorp.com> writes:

As the author, John might seem biased, but I'll weigh in with my own
praise for the product. His comment "if you want to stay sane" is
really on-the-mark here... Cookies _are_ insane, but ClientCookie at
least provides them a nice padded room in which to reside...

Cookies aren't insane in concept, but their implementation leaves some
things to be desired.

Agreed... especially with IE6.1, where I still have an incredibly annoying
problem with a Zope-based Intranet where my cookies are being forgotten
periodically, which among other things has led to repeated data loss
(when combined with anothe IE peculiarity which loses the data in the input
fields of a form if the form submission fails... when you hit "back" you
no longer have your data to resubmit).

Oh, but I'm describing a problem with a _Microsoft_ product, so the whole
comment was redundant. Sorry.

-Peter

[John J. Lee]

Peter Hansen <pe***@engcorp.com> writes:
[...]

Cookies aren't insane in concept, but their implementation leaves some
things to be desired.

Agreed... especially with IE6.1, where I still have an incredibly annoying
problem with a Zope-based Intranet where my cookies are being forgotten
periodically, which among other things has led to repeated data loss

[...]

Do you know why / when / which? Are these cookies in your browser or
your users' browsers? Third party? Session or persistent?

I ask because browser behaviour is the only standard in use, really.
Guess which browser?

Of course, cookies are "allowed" to vanish at random times. I
remember reading something about servers telling browsers which
cookies are important to users and shouldn't be thrown away, but I've
completely forgotten where that was...
John