To just enable cookies and their management, use the cookiefile option, e.g.
txt = getURLContent(url, cookiefile = "") Then you can pass this to readHTMLTable(), best done as content = readHTMLTable(htmlParse(txt, asText = TRUE)) The function readHTMLTable() doesn't use RCurl and doesn't handle cookies. D. On 6/7/12 7:33 AM, mdvaan wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to access a website and read its content. The website is a > restricted access website that I access through a proxy server (which > therefore requires me to enable cookies). I have problems in allowing Rcurl > to receive and send cookies. > > The following lines give me: > > library(RCurl) > library(XML) > > url <- "http://www.theurl.com"; > content <- readHTMLTable(url) > > content > $`NULL` > > > > V1 > 1 > > > 2 > > Cookies disabled > 3 > > > 4 Your browser currently does not accept cookies.\rCookies need to be > enabled for Scopus to function properly.\rPlease enable session cookies in > your browser and try again. > > $`NULL` > V1 V2 V3 > 1 > > $`NULL` > V1 > 1 Cookies disabled > > $`NULL` > V1 > 1 > 2 > 3 > > I have carefully read section 4.4. from this: > http://www.omegahat.org/RCurl/RCurlJSS.pdf and tried the following without > succes: > > curl <- getCurlHandle() > curlSetOpt(cookiejar = 'cookies.txt', curl = curl) > > Any suggestions on how to allow for cookies? > > Thanks. > > Math > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/How-to-set-cookies-in-RCurl-tp4632693.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
