Cookie Confusion - How to Set a Cookie

[Aaron Watters]

On Apr 28, 9:42 am, cbh... at gmail.com wrote:
> ....I see the cookie in my HTTP header
> but do not get anything in the cookie text file.  I'm working on
> linux.
>
> print "Content-type: text/html"
> cookie = Cookie.SimpleCookie()
> cookie['Test'] = 'abc'
> print cookie
> print
>
> Are there rules about where in the header the set cookie line should
> be?

Hi Christian.  I think the cookie can go anywhere in
the header, but I usually put it before the content-type.
If you want to store the cookie to a file,
or even better, to a database of some sort, you have to
do it yourself, the Cookie module doesn't do it for you,
I hope.

  # store cookie to /tmp/cookie.txt
  file("/tmp/cookie.txt","w").write(str(cookie))

For parsing cookies, I stole and modified this from
the Django source (for use in a cgi script):

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from Cookie import SimpleCookie
import os

# stolen and modified from Django
def parse_cookie(cookie=None, environ=None):
    if cookie is None:
        if environ is None:
            environ = os.environ
        cookie = environ.get('HTTP_COOKIE', '')
    if cookie == '':
        return {}
    c = SimpleCookie()
    c.load(cookie)
    cookiedict = {}
    for key in c.keys():
        cookiedict[key] = c.get(key).value
    return cookiedict

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All the best.  -- Aaron Watters

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