Cookie: Not understanding again

[mosscliffe]

On 1 Jun, 15:49, mosscliffe <mcl.off... at googlemail.com> wrote:
> I have the following code, which I thought would create a cookie, if
> one did not exist and on the html form being sent to the server, it
> would be availabe for interrogation, when the script is run a second
> time.
>
> It seems to me there is something basic missing in that I should need
> to tell the server I am sending a cookie, but all the docs I have read
> imply it is done automatically, if one creates a 'Cookie.SimpleCookie'
>
> I know my understanding is poor of web server logic, but if anyone can
> help, I will be most grateful.
>
> This may be more to do with Web Server behaviour than python
> programming, but surely there is a way of doing this in python.
>
> Richard
>
> #!/usr/bin/env python
>
> import Cookie, os
> import cgitb;cgitb.enable()
>
> def getCookie():
>         c = Cookie.SimpleCookie()
>         if 'HTTP_COOKIE' in os.environ:
>                 c.load(os.environ['HTTP_COOKIE'])
>                 print "Found a Cookie", c, "<BR>"
>                 c['mysession'].value += 1
>                 print "<HR>"
>                 return c
>         else:
>                 c['mysession'] = 45
>                 print "No Cookie Found so setting an initial value for a Cookie", c
>                 print "<HR>"
>                 return c
>
> if __name__ == '__main__':
>
>         print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"
>         myCookie = getCookie()
>         #Print all Environment variables
>         for k, v in os.environ.items():
>                 print k, "=", v, "<BR>"
>         print "<HR>"
>
> print """
> <form  method="get">
> <input type="text" name="user" value="">
> </form>
> """

Forgot to add running python 2.3.4 on a hosted Apache server