[Tutor] Web client in Python

[Alexandre Ratti]

Hi Kevin,


At 12:00 29/05/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>From: "Kevin Christy" <kevinchristy@socal.rr.com>
>Subject: RE: [Tutor] Web client in Python
>Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 06:44:21 -0700
>
>Thanks to all who responded. I will post the code once it gets the job 
>done; I am not getting successful logins, perhaps because of the cookie 
>issue. The HTTP server is generating a hidden, temporary session ID code 
>that may be the problem.

If the site uses cookies to store the temporary session ID, these resources 
might be useful:

1) "Cookie Spy": it's a free Internet Explorer plug-in that displays cookie 
values while browsing. It helped me work around a similar login issue. I 
don't have a URL, but the developer is called Konstantin Boukreev
(konstantin@mail.primorye.ru).

2) "clientcookie": this is a Python module. From my snippets:

<QUOTE>
Clientcookie is a Python module for handling cookies on the client side, 
useful for accessing web sites that require cookies to be set, and returned 
later. It is a port of Gisle Aas' Perl module HTTP::Cookies, from the 
libwww-perl library. Both RFC2965 and Netscape cookies are supported.

import ClientCookie
import urllib2
request = urllib2.Request("http://www.acme.com/")
# note we're using the urlopen from ClientCookie, not urllib2
result = ClientCookie.urlopen(request)
# let's say this next request requires a cookie that was set in result
request2 = urllib2.Request("http://www.acme.com/flying_machines.html")
result2 = ClientCookie.urlopen(request2)

http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/ClientCookie
</QUOTE>


Cheers.

Alexandre