Problem setting cookie in Internet Explorer

[Mike Driscoll]

On Apr 21, 10:13 am, sophie_newbie <paulgeele... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using the python to set a cookie when a user logs in. Thing is it
> doesn't seem to be setting properly in Internet Explorer. It works
> grand in Firefox. Its basically:
>
> c = Cookie.SimpleCookie()
>
> c['username'] = uname
>
> c['password'] = pword
>
> print c
>
> print pageContent
>
> And thats it. I've a suspicion that it could be something to do with
> the expiry time of the cookie. But I'm really not sure and don't
> really know where to go with it. I've tried it on Internet Explorer on
> 2 machines and get the same problem.
>
> Thanks for any help...

Did you make sure cookies are enabled in Internet Explorer?

You might also take a look at these pages:

http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles/cookielib.shtml
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/recipebook.shtml#cookielib

They seem quite informative.

Mike