I think the best thing to do would be to look at the raw headers. If you can't do that in your framework, then try this: set the cookie, shut down your server, fire up a debugging HTTP server on the same port, and then refresh the page. If your browser is sending the cookie, you'll see it in the HTTP request; if not, you have a configuration issue.
As I said earlier, setting the cookie with a path like that may mean that the browser won't send it. Chris Angelico -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list