On 2 Jun, 11:50, David Wahler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 2, 9:32 am, mosscliffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > David, > > > Thanks for your help. > > > I spent all last night trying to get it to work, but I can not work > > out how to force mycookieinto the response header. The most > > annoying part is on one occasion it did and thecookiesat there until > > I killed the session. By the time I discovered 'pageinfo' add-in for > > firefox, thecookiehad gone. > > Your CGI script needs to produce output of the form: > > Header-1: ... > Header-2: ... > > response data goes here... > > Each line before the blank line is an HTTP header. To send cookies to > the browser, you need to generate a header of the form: > > Set-Cookie: name=value > > Printing the SimpleCookie object does this for you. > > > I have read a lot about cookies, but the grey matter is very slow at > > absorbing nowadays. I was wondering if I should add the 'path=/' to > > mycookie, as I am using a host that has numbers for the IP address > > and my domain name when used, is via a frame. Although the python bit > > to display the contents (when it did work), did not show any value for > > 'path'. > > If you specify a path attribute, then the browser will only send thecookieon > requests that begin with that path. If you don't, it > defaults to the URL of the page that generates thecookie. For a > single test script like this, there's no need to bother with it, but > you can set it like this: > > >>>cookie["someCookieName"]["path"] = "/path/to/whatever" > > Could I create the response header in python and get it executed as > > part of my form submission ? > > > Obviously, still struggling. > > Here's a simple, complete example to get you started, based loosely on > your original code: > > ###################################################################### > > importCookie, os > import cgitb; cgitb.enable() > > def getCookie(): > c =Cookie.SimpleCookie() > if 'HTTP_COOKIE' in os.environ: > c.load(os.environ['HTTP_COOKIE']) > > if os.environ['QUERY_STRING'] == 'reset' or 'mysession' not in c: > c['mysession'] = 0 > else: > c['mysession'] = int(c['mysession'].value) + 1 > > return c > > if __name__ == '__main__': > > print "Content-type: text/html" > myCookie = getCookie() > print myCookie > > if os.environ['QUERY_STRING'] == 'reset': > print "Status: 302 Moved" > print "Location:", os.environ['SCRIPT_NAME'] > print > else: > print > print 'Current Value: ', myCookie['mysession'].value > print '<br><a href="?reset">Reset Counter</a>' > > ###################################################################### > > Hope this helps! > > -- David
David, Thank you very much for your detailed reply. As soon as I get a chance to try it all out, I will let you know how I get on. Thanks again Richard -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
