Cookies / CGI

[Timothy O'Malley]

hola.

For what it's worth:

In article <Pine.LNX.4.21.0005241111360.3750-100000 at fep132.fep.ru>,
Oleg Broytmann <phd at phd.russ.ru> wrote:
> # ----- create -----
> #! /usr/local/bin/python -O
> 
> def set_cookie():
>    import time
>    t = time.gmtime(time.time())
>    t = (t[0] + 10,) + t[1:] # add 10 years :)
> 
>    import Cookie
>    cookie = Cookie.Cookie()
> 
>    cookie["id"] = str(1024)
>    cookie["id"]["expires"] = time.strftime("%a, %d-%b-%Y %T GMT", t)


You don't have to format the time string yourself.  Cookie.py will
do it for you.  Just set the value to the number of seconds:


   cookie["id"]["expires"] = 10 * 365 * 24 * 3600