Server side cookie problems

[rodmc]

Hi, I am trying to set a cookie on a client computer using the Cookie
module however all I get is the text being printed in the browser
window. Can anyone point me in the right direction so that the cookie
data is set without it appearing in the browser? A shortened version
of the code is below, in the full version there is also userID check,
this seems to work ok. I have removed that portion for the time being
as its the writing part that is the problem.

import sys, os, string, cgi, Cookie, urllib2
from types import ListType

cookie = Cookie.SimpleCookie()
cookieHdr = os.environ.get("HTTP_COOKIE", "")
cookie.load(cookieHdr)

def writetocookie(number):
#writes the ID of the database entry to a cookie
cookie["dataid"]=number
print "Content-Type: text/html"
print
print "Set-Cookie: dataid=",cookie["dataid"].value
writetocookie(1)

I presume this is not the correct way to write a cookie, the examples
I have found online don't seem to provide much more information.

Kind regards,

rod

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:27:53 -0200, rodmc <us***************@yahoo.co.uk>
escribi�:

Hi, I am trying to set a cookie on a client computer using the Cookie
module however all I get is the text being printed in the browser
window. Can anyone point me in the right direction so that the cookie

def writetocookie(number):
#writes the ID of the database entry to a cookie
cookie["dataid"]=number
print "Content-Type: text/html"
print
print "Set-Cookie: dataid=",cookie["dataid"].value
I presume this is not the correct way to write a cookie, the examples
I have found online don't seem to provide much more information.

I don't know either if this is the right way, but surely the Set-Cookie
header must appear *before* the blank line; that blank line separates the
headers from the response body.

--
Gabriel Genellina

[rodmc]

On Feb 6, 8:00 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" <[e-mail]:

En Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:27:53 -0200, rodmc <[e-mail]>
escribi�:

Hi, I am trying to set a cookie on a client computer using the Cookie
module however all I get is the text being printed in the browser
window. Can anyone point me in the right direction so that the cookie

def writetocookie(number):
#writes the ID of the database entry to a cookie
cookie["dataid"]=number
print "Content-Type: text/html"
print
print "Set-Cookie: dataid=",cookie["dataid"].value

I presume this is not the correct way to write a cookie, the examples
I have found online don't seem to provide much more information.

I don't know either if this is the right way, but surely the Set-Cookie
header must appear *before* the blank line; that blank line separates the
headers from the response body.

--
Gabriel Genellina

Thanks, that seemed to work.

rod

[rodmc]

On Feb 7, 1:06 pm, rodmc <[e-mail]:

On Feb 6, 8:00 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" <[e-mail]:

En Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:27:53 -0200, rodmc <[e-mail]>
escribi�:

Hi, I am trying to set a cookie on a client computer using the Cookie
module however all I get is the text being printed in the browser
window. Can anyone point me in the right direction so that the cookie

def writetocookie(number):
#writes the ID of the database entry to a cookie
cookie["dataid"]=number
print "Content-Type: text/html"
print
print "Set-Cookie: dataid=",cookie["dataid"].value

I presume this is not the correct way to write a cookie, the examples
I have found online don't seem to provide much more information.

I don't know either if this is the right way, but surely the Set-Cookie
header must appear *before* the blank line; that blank line separates the
headers from the response body.

--
Gabriel Genellina

Thanks, that seemed to work.

rod

Also how do I find out if a cookie has expired? I have tried various
methods but to no avail?

Cheers,

rod

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Thu, 07 Feb 2008 10:40:58 -0200, rodmc <us***************@yahoo.co.uk>
escribi�:

Also how do I find out if a cookie has expired? I have tried various
methods but to no avail?

The browser won't send the cookie in that case. The server cannot tell
whether the cookie expired or it never existed, AFAIK.

--
Gabriel Genellina