Problem checking an existing browser cookie

[Nik the Greek]

On 30 Αύγ, 20:48, Rami Chowdhury <rami.chowdh... at merton.oxon.org>
wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 23:36, Nik the Greek <nikos.the.gr... at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > # initialize cookie
> > cookie = SimpleCookie()
> > cookie.load( os.environ.get('HTTP_COOKIE', '') )
> > visitor = cookie.get('visitor')
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> > This statement
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> > if (visitor.value != 'nikos') and re.search( r'(msn|yandex|13448|
> > spider|crawl)', host ) is None:
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> > produces the following error:
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> >  /home/webville/public_html/cgi-bin/counter.py
> >   93 # do not increment the counter if a Cookie is set to the
> > visitors browser already
> >   94 #
> > =========================================================================== ======================================
> >   95 if (visitor.value != 'nikos') and re.search( r'(msn|yandex|13448|
> > spider|crawl)', host ) is None:
> >   96
> >   97         print visitor
> > visitor = None, visitor.value undefined, re = <module 're' from '/usr/
> > lib64/python2.4/re.pyc'>, re.search = <function search>, host =
> > '178-128-217.dynamic.cyta.gr', builtin None = None
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> > Why visitor.value is undefined?
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> Because, as the traceback tells you, visitor is None. As you said, the
> cookie is not recognized. Try inserting the following line at the top
> of your script:
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> print "Content-type:text/html\r\n\r\n", os.environ.get('HTTP_COOKIE',
> 'NO COOKIE DATA')
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> That should give you the value of the cookie, which might help you
> debug why it is not being loaded.
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> --
> Rami Chowdhury
> "Never assume malice when stupidity will suffice." -- Hanlon's Razor
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Unfortunately it produces an Internal Server Error :(