On May 1, 9:02 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Apr 29, 3:35 pm, Aaron Watters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Thanks for the code, Aaron. I will give it a try. > > > > I've been reading some more about cookielib and am not sure whether I > > > should use Cookie or cookielib. This is what I want to do: a user is > > > going to login. Upon a successful login, I want to write their name > > > and date/time of visit to a cookie file. Which is the correct python > > > module to use? > > > Cookie does parsing and generation of cookie strings > > for server-side applications like your CGI script. > > > The cookielib module > > is designed for either implementing a client like a web browser > > or emulating a client/browser (for web scraping, for example). > > > I think you want to use Cookie. > > The distinction could be made clearer in > > the docs, imho. > > > Also, when you say "write the cookie file" I think you mean > > "store the cookie to the client browser". This should happen > > automatically when you send the cookie header to the client > > correctly (if the client is configured to cooperate). > > > -- Aaron Watters > > > ===http://www.xfeedme.com/nucular/pydistro.py/go?FREETEXT=default+does+n... > > Sorry for the slow replies. I've been in & out with a sick child. > > I'm used to my javascript cookies. They are automatically written to > a cookie.txt file in a .mozilla dir under my user. When I say to > 'write the cookie file' this is what I was referring to. I was > expecting my python cookie to automatically get written to the same > file. I have't seen this happen yet.
Hmmm. I don't know how cookies are stored on the client. I recommend using the standard cgi debug environment dump after setting a cookie to see if the cookie is coming back to the server. If it is not something is wrong -- you are setting it incorrectly, or the server or client is blocking the cookie. Note if you are testing on one machine: some browsers and servers have by default special security restrictions on "localhost" loopbacks -- it may be that this is causing either the server or the client to ignore the cookie. -- Aaron Watters === http://www.xfeedme.com/nucular/pydistro.py/go?FREETEXT=cooked -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
