cookielib

How to pickle a CookieJar?

I have an object with a CookieJar that I want to pickle. However as you all probably know, pickle chokes on objects that contain lock objects. And for some horrible reason, a CookieJar has a lock object. from cPickle import dumps from cookielib import CookieJar class Person(object): def __init__(self, name): self.name = n...

cookielib and form authentication woes in Python

InstaMapper is a GPS tracking service that updates the device's position more frequently when the device is being tracked live on the InstaMapper webpage. I'd like to have this happen all the time so I thought I'd write a python script to login to my account and access the page periodically. import urllib2, urllib, cookielib cj = cook...

How to add cookie to existing cookielib CookieJar instance in Python?

I have a CookieJar that's being used with mechanize that I want to add a cookie to. How can I go about doing this? make_cookie() and set_cookie() weren't clear enough for me. br = mechanize.Browser() cj = cookielib.LWPCookieJar() br.set_cookiejar(cj) ...

How to display specific cookie?

Hello, I'm using ActivePython 2.5.1 and the cookielib package to retrieve web pages. I'd like to display a given cookie from the cookiejar instead of the whole thing: #OK to display all the cookies for index, cookie in enumerate(cj): print index, ' : ', cookie #How to display just PHPSESSID? #AttributeError: CookieJar i...

Storing cookielib cookies in a database

Hi, I'm using the cookielib module to handle HTTP cookies when using the urllib2 module in Python 2.6 in a way similar to this snippet: import cookielib, urllib2 cj = cookielib.CookieJar() opener = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor(cj)) r = opener.open("http://example.com/") I'd like to store the cookies in a database....