[Python-Dev] Cookies.py in the core (was Tangent to Re: [Tutor] CGI and Python (fwd))

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

Guido van Rossum writes:
 > I think Cookie.py is for server-side management of cookies, not for
 > client-side.  Do we need client-side cookies too????

  I think this would be highly desirable; we've seen enough requests
for it on c.l.py.

Moshe Zadka writes:
 > Not until we write a high-level interface to urllib which is similar
 > to the Perlish UserAgent module -- which is something that should
 > be done if Python wants to be a viable clients-side langugage.

  Exactly!  It has become very difficult to get anything done on the
Web without enabling cookies, and simple "screen scraping" tools need
to have this support as well.


  -Fred

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