Problem checking an existing browser cookie

[Nik the Greek]

On 30 Αύγ, 05:43, MRAB <pyt... at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> On 30/08/2010 03:07, Nik the Greek wrote:
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> > On 30 Αύγ, 04:51, MRAB<pyt... at mrabarnett.plus.com>  wrote:
> >> On 30/08/2010 02:14, Νίκος wrote:
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> >>> On 29 Αύγ, 21:44, MRAB<pyt... at mrabarnett.plus.com>    wrote:
> >>>> On 29/08/2010 06:34, Νίκος wrote:
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> >>>>> On 28 Αύγ, 23:15, MRAB<pyt... at mrabarnett.plus.com>      wrote:
> >>>>>> On 28/08/2010 20:37, Íßêïò wrote:
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> >>>>>>> On 22 Áýã, 10:27, Íßêïò<nikos.the.gr... at gmail.com>        wrote:
> >>>>>>>> On 16 Áýã, 14:31, Peter Otten<__pete... at web.de>        wrote:
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> >>>>>>>>> Íßêïò wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>> # initializecookie
> >>>>>>>>>> cookie=Cookie.SimpleCookie()
> >>>>>>>>>> cookie.load( os.environ.get('HTTP_COOKIE', '') )
> >>>>>>>>>> mycookie =cookie.get('visitor')
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> >>>>>>>>>> if ( mycookie and mycookie.value != 'nikos' ) or re.search( r'(cyta|
> >>>>>>>>>> yandex|13448|spider|crawl)', host ) is None:
> >>>>>>>>>>         blabla...
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> >>>>>>>>>> I checked and Chrome has acookienames visitor with a value ofnikos
> >>>>>>>>>> within.
> >>>>>>>>>> So, i have to ask why the if fails?
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> >>>>>>>>> Maybe it's because != != ==
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> >>>>>>>> Iwant ti if code block to be executed only if the browsercookienames
> >>>>>>>> visitor fetched doesnt cotnain the vbalue of 'nikos'
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> >>>>>>>> Is there somethign wrong with the way i wrote it?
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> >>>>>>> Please do help me with this too becaus eif i dont solve this my
> >>>>>>> website keeps count my each visit like iam a guest visitor!
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> >>>>>> Print out mycookie, repr(mycookie.value) (unless mycookie is None) and
> >>>>>> repr(host). Then follow the code yourself to see whether the condition
> >>>>>> is True.
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> >>>>> print mycookie outputs 'None'
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> >>>>> Thts weird because i check with the browser and the cookie is there!
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> >>>> Just because you can see it doesn't mean your code can.
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> >>>>> print repr(host) outputs '78-236-176.adsl.cyta.gr'
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> >>>>> repr(mycookie.value) (unless mycookie is None)
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> >>>>> and also
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> >>>>> print mycookie.value gives an error too. Maybe there is not a value
> >>>>> method?
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> >>>> If mycookie is None, then it's not surprising that doesn't have 'value'.
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> >>>> In summary, mycookie is None, so:
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> >>>>        mycookie and mycookie.value != 'nikos'
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> >>>> is false (actually None, which is treated as false).
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> >>>> host == '78-236-176.adsl.cyta.gr', so:
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> >>>>        re.search(r'(cyta|yandex|13448|spider|crawl)', host)
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> >>>> finds 'cyta' and the search returns a match.
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> >>>> false or false == false
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> >>>> blabla... isn't executed.
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> >>> Lets forget the 2nd or argument, ill put it off
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> >>> so we have this now
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> >>> if ( mycookie and mycookie.value != 'nikos' ):
> >>>       #do stuff as long as there ins't a cookie names visitor with a
> >>> value of nikos in the broswer
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> >>> What does it mean practically that the mycookie equals to None?
> >>> That mycookie doesnt exist?
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> >>> How should i write this if block to mkake sure it checks whether or
> >>> not the cookie exists?
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> >> Under what conditions do you want to execute the block?
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> >> This:
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> >>       mycookie and mycookie.value != 'nikos'
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> >> will be true if:
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> >>       there _is_ a cookie, but its value isn't 'nikos'
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> >> I think that you want is to execute the block if someone else is
> >> visiting. Correct?
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> > Yes that exactyl right!
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> > To make sure a cookie is set i have a script names koukos.py
> > containing this:
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> > ==============================
> > #!/usr/bin/python
> > # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
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> > import cgitb; cgitb.enable()
> > import cgi, os, Cookie
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> > # initialize cookie
> > cookie = Cookie.SimpleCookie()
> > cookie.load( os.environ.get('HTTP_COOKIE', '') )
> > mycookie = cookie.get('visitor')
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> > htmlBody = []
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> > # if visitor cookie does exist
> > if ( mycookie and mycookie.value == 'nikos' ):
> >      htmlBody.append('ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΕΠΟΜΕΝΗ ΕΠΙΣΚΕΨΗ ΣΟΥ ΘΑ ΣΕ ΥΠΟΛΟΓΙΖΩ ΩΣ
> > ΕΠΙΣΚΕΠΤΗ ΑΥΞΑΝΟΝΤΑΣ ΤΟΝ ΜΕΤΡΗΤΗ!')
> >      cookie['visitor'] = 'nikos'
> >      cookie['visitor']['expires'] = -1      #this cookie will expire
> > now
> > else:
> >      htmlBody.append('ΑΠΟ ΔΩ ΚΑΙ ΣΤΟ ΕΞΗΣ ΔΕΝ ΣΕ ΕΙΔΑ, ΔΕΝ ΣΕ ΞΕΡΩ, ΔΕΝ
> > ΣΕ ΑΚΟΥΣΑ! ΘΑ ΕΙΣΑΙ ΠΛΕΟΝ Ο ΑΟΡΑΤΟΣ ΕΠΙΣΚΕΠΤΗΣ!!')
> >      cookie['visitor'] = 'nikos'
> >      cookie['visitor']['expires'] = 60*60*24*30*12
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> > htmlBody.insert(0, 'Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8\n')
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> > print(cookie)
> > print('\n'.join(htmlBody))
> > =============================
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> > Which i seicth on and off according to my desire if i want to be
> > counted or not!
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> >> How do you know when it _is_ you? There'll be a cookie which says it's
> >> you?
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> >> If so, then you want to execute the block if there isn't any cookie, or
> >> if there's a cookie but it doesn't say it's you:
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> >>       not mycookie or mycookie.value != 'nikos'
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> > i tried this as you suggested:
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> > if ( not mycookie or mycookie.value != 'nikos' ) or re.search( r'(msn|
> > yandex|13448|spider|crawl)', host ) is None:
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> > but the counter keeps increasing although the cookie named visitor on
> > my browser exist and also has the valuie of 'nikos'.
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> > Why it keeps increasing? Doesn't the if code "sees" that the cookie
> > with a value of "nikos" is present!?!!
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> Previously your regex was r'(cyta|yandex|13448|spider|crawl)' and you
> said that host was '78-236-176.adsl.cyta.gr', so it matched.
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> Now your regex is r'(msn|yandex|13448|spider|crawl)'. If host is still
> '78-236-176.adsl.cyta.gr' then of course it doesn't match, so the
> condition is true.

Thats what i want.

If host doesnt contain substringsa of the regex to execute if block.
if it does match i dont want then if block to execute, hence the
counter too.

The reason i had 'cyta' before is because not mycookie or
mycookie.value != 'nikos'  doesn't filter me out.

The problem is what happens with the

not mycookie or mycookie.value != 'nikos'

Since cookie 'visitor' does contain the 'nikos' value why the if code
blck gets executed?