I have the following code, which I thought would create a cookie, if
one did not exist and on the html form being sent to the server, it
would be availabe for interrogation, when the script is run a second
time.
It seems to me there is something basic missing in that I should need
to tell the server I am sending a cookie, but all the docs I have read
imply it is done automatically, if one creates a 'Cookie.SimpleCookie'
I know my understanding is poor of web server logic, but if anyone can
help, I will be most grateful.
This may be more to do with Web Server behaviour than python
programming, but surely there is a way of doing this in python.
Richard
#!/usr/bin/env python
import Cookie, os
import cgitb;cgitb.enable()
def getCookie():
c = Cookie.SimpleCookie()
if 'HTTP_COOKIE' in os.environ:
c.load(os.environ['HTTP_COOKIE'])
print "Found a Cookie", c, "<BR>"
c['mysession'].value += 1
print "<HR>"
return c
else:
c['mysession'] = 45
print "No Cookie Found so setting an initial value for a
Cookie", c
print "<HR>"
return c
if __name__ == '__main__':
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"
myCookie = getCookie()
#Print all Environment variables
for k, v in os.environ.items():
print k, "=", v, "<BR>"
print "<HR>"
print """
<form method="get">
<input type="text" name="user" value="">
</form>
"""
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