Problem checking an existing browser cookie

[Nik the Greek]

On 30 Αύγ, 06:12, MRAB <pyt... at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> On 30/08/2010 03:55, Nik the Greek wrote:
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> > 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?
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> This part:
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>      ( not mycookie or mycookie.value != 'nikos' )
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> is false but this part:
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>      re.search( r'(msn|yandex|13448|spider|crawl)', host ) is None
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> is true because host doesn't contain any of those substrings.

So what is the problem here?

And why mycookie when i print it it says None?

Perhpas its doenst get loaded like that?

# initialize cookie
cookie = SimpleCookie()
cookie.load( os.environ.get('HTTP_COOKIE', '') )
mycookie = cookie.get('visitor')