How to keep cookies when making http requests (Python 2.7)

[Luca Cerone]

Hi everybody,
I am trying to write a simple Python script to solve the "riddle" at:
http://quiz.gambitresearch.com/

The quiz is quite easy to solve, one needs to evaluate the expression between the curly brackets (say that the expression has value <val>)
and go to the web page:

http://quiz.gambitresearch/job/<val>

You have to be fast enough, because with the page there is an associated cookie that expires 1 sec after the first request, therefore you need to be quick to access the /job/<val> page.

[I know that this is the correct solution because with a friend we wrote a small script in JavaScript and could access the page with the email address]

As an exercise I have decided to try doing the same with Python.

First I have tried with the following code:

#START SCRIPT

import re
import urllib2

regex = re.compile(r'<span class=\'x\'>\{(.*)\}<span class=\'x\'>')
base_address = "http://quiz.gambitresearch.com/"
base_h = urllib2.urlopen(base_address)
base_page = base_h.read()

val = str(eval(regex.findall(base_page)[0]))

job_address = base_address + "job/" + val
job_h = urllib2.urlopen(job_address)
job_page = job_h.read()

print job_page
#END SCRIPT

job_page has the following content now: "WRONG! (Have you enabled cookies?)"

Trying to solve the issues with the cookies I found the "requests" module that in theory should work.
I therefore rewrote the above script to use request:

#START SCRIPT:
import re
import requests

regex = re.compile(r'<span class=\'x\'>\{(.*)\}<span class=\'x\'>')

base_address = "http://quiz.gambitresearch.com/"

s = requests.Session()
 
base_h = s.get('http://quiz.gambitresearch.com/')
base_page = base_h.text

val = eval( regex.findall( base_page )[0] )

job_address = base_address + "job/" + str(val)
job_h = s.get( job_address )
job_page = job_h.text

print job_page
#END SCRIPT
# print job_page produces "Wrong!".

According to the manual using Session() the cookies should be enabled and persistent for all the session. In fact the cookies in base_h.cookies and in job_h.cookies seem to be the same:

base_h.cookies == job_h.cookies
#returns True

So, why does this script fail to access the job page?
How can I change it so that I it works as intended and job_page prints
the content of the page that displays the email address to use for the job applications?

Thanks a lot in advance for the help!

Best Wishes,
Luca