Create a cookie with cookielib

[John J. Lee]

"Matthew Franz" <mdfranz at gmail.com> writes:

> I'm not sure what you mean be forge, but if you mean set an arbitrary
> cookie manually (vs. one that was provided by the server).  just use
> add_header() in http://docs.python.org/lib/request-objects.html
> 
> It may be possible to use CookieJar for this purpose but I've only
> used it for manipulating cookies set by the server...
> 
> And  I would agree that Python cookie APIs are less intuitive than
> what are available in others such as Jakarta HttpClient....

There's not really intended to *be* an API, for most purposes -- you
just let it do its stuff.

What do you like from HttpClient?


John