Problem checking an existing browser cookie

[MRAB]

On 30/08/2010 03:55, Nik the Greek wrote:
> 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.
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> Thats what i want.
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> 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.
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> The reason i had 'cyta' before is because not mycookie or
> mycookie.value != 'nikos'  doesn't filter me out.
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> The problem is what happens with the
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> not mycookie or mycookie.value != 'nikos'
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> Since cookie 'visitor' does contain the 'nikos' value why the if code
> blck gets executed?

This part:

     ( not mycookie or mycookie.value != 'nikos' )

is false but this part:

     re.search( r'(msn|yandex|13448|spider|crawl)', host ) is None

is true because host doesn't contain any of those substrings.