ClientCookie 0.02a http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/README-ClientCookie http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/ClientCookie-0.02a.tar.gz or http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/ClientCookie-002a.zip WARNING: this is an alpha release: interfaces may change (probably not, though). Since this is a port rather than completely new code though, it does actually seem to work quite well! Also note that redirects are not handled correctly yet when used with the extended urllib2 callables (urlopen, HTTPHandler, etc): they'll probably accept and send cookies when they shouldn't in some cases. This is a Python port of Gisle Aas' HTTP::Cookies Perl module from the libwww-perl web client library. The purpose of this Python package is to allow the easy extraction of HTTP cookies from "Set-Cookie" and "Set-Cookie2" (RFC 2965) headers, and generation of "Cookie" and "Cookie2" headers appropriate for a particular HTTP request. Incoming cookies are checked for acceptability based on the host name, etc. Cookies are only set on outgoing requests if they match the request's host name, path, etc. Python 2.0 or above is required (though I may fix it to work with 1.52 eventually), and urllib2 is recommended. Note that the version of urllib2.py from Python 2.0 is too old: you need the version from Python 2.1 (available from the source distribution or CVS from http://www.python.org), which itself depends on inspect.py -- just copy them into your Python search path. import ClientCookie import urllib2 request = urllib2.Request("http://www.acme.com/") # note we're using the urlopen from ClientCookie, not urllib2 result = ClientCookie.urlopen(request) # let's say this next request requires a cookie that was set in result request2 = urllib2.Request("http://www.acme.com/flying_machines.html") result2 = ClientCookie.urlopen(request) (lower-level usage is also possible) Distrubuted under the Perl Artistic License. John J. Lee <jjl@pobox.com> April 2002