Newbie still struggeling with Cookies

[David Lees]

It works.  Great.  Thank you very much.

I am a bit puzzled how it works.  I did not change the line:
CGI_HANDLER = "/cgi-bin/test.py"

and I have nothing called "test.py" in my cgi-bin directory.  I called
the code below "TestCookie.py" and executed directly from my Netscape
4.75 browser.

david lees


szhao wrote:
> 
> The following is part of CGI scripts I stole from GvR (FAQWiz.py)
> 
> #!C:/progra~1/python/python.exe
> 
> import os, time, string
> CGI_HANDLER = "/cgi-bin/test.py"
> 
> def send_cookie(name, value, lifetime):
>     """Send Cookie to browser.
>        name:     the name of the cookie to be set
>        value:    The value assigned to the named cookie
>        lifetime: Cookie expiration in seconds.
>     """
>     import urllib
>     value = urllib.quote(value)
>     then = time.time() + lifetime
>     gmt = time.gmtime(then)
>     path = os.environ.get('SCRIPT_NAME', CGI_HANDLER)
>     print "Set-Cookie: %s=%s; path=%s;" % (name, value, path),
>     print time.strftime("expires=%a, %d-%b-%y %X GMT", gmt)
> 
> def load_cookies():
>     if not os.environ.has_key('HTTP_COOKIE'):
>         return {}
>     raw = os.environ['HTTP_COOKIE']
>     words = map(string.strip, string.split(raw, ';'))
>     cookies = {}
>     for word in words:
>         i = string.find(word, '=')
>         if i >= 0:
>             key, value = word[:i], word[i+1:]
>             cookies[key] = value
>     return cookies
> 
> def get_cookie(name):
>     cookies = load_cookies()
>     try:
>         value = cookies[name]
>     except KeyError:
>         return ""
>     import urllib
>     return urllib.unquote(value)
> 
> def _test():
>     """show the cookie set at the second time this script is hit."""
>     cookie = get_cookie("MY_COOKIE")
>     if not cookie:   #first time
>        send_cookie("MY_COOKIE", "COOKIE-0001", 30*60)
>     print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n"
>     print "<pre>%s</pre>" % cookie
> 
> _test()
> 
> "David Lees" <DavidL.nono.spam.nono at raqia.com> wrote in message
> news:3A158D94.52E50B3A at raqia.com...
> > I am trying to learn Python and use it for some simple CGI scripts on an
> > Apache server. I have gotten up the hello world type scripts and simple
> > parsing of form (by following the form.py example in the book by Altom).
> > I am stuck on setting a cookie.  The local perl guru tells me that there
> > is a perl module called "cgi.pm" that lets him do all this stuff easily
> > and quickly.  I have looked at Guido's example on a viewgraph at:
> > www.python.org/doc/essays/ppt/sd99east/tsld057.htm
> > but it is not clear to me how to use it.  For one thing it references
> > "test.py" and I assume that the Cookie example also resides in the
> > cgi-bin, but the HTML code that refereces the unnamed Cookie example
> > seems to be unavailable.
> >
> > I also have found an article by Kuchling title "A CGI Framework in
> > Python", which includes code that looks very useful, but I am not sure
> > how to install it all.
> >
> > My questions are:
> > 1. Is there a simple, complete cookie example for Python, understandable
> > by a newbie?
> > 2. Is all the functionality of the perl cgi.pm module available in
> > Python?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > david lees
> >
> >
> >