Module to open URLs that set cookies?

[Jeff Rush]

On Thu, 9 Sep 1999 22:26:15, Marshall T. 
<marshall.taylorNOcpSPAM at beenz.com> wrote:

> I would like to know how to write an http client that will 
> accept cookies when opening webpages.  I'm attempting to 
> write a module that open a page and note the latency in 
> doing so.  I've been successful in doing this with the 
> sockets and urllib library modules, but have been foiled by 
> pages that set cookies.  Is there a canned library for 
> doing this in Python?

I do exactly that in my webbot module at:

    http://starship.python.net/crew/jrush/Webbot/

-Jeff Rush