Use existing IE cookie

[Diez B. Roggisch]

KB wrote:

> 
>> What does you full example look like, including the
>> cookie-acquisition-stuff?
>>
>> Diez
> 
> I ran them seperately, hoping for a clue as to what my "cookiejar"
> was.
> 
> The cookie-acquisition stuff returns "screener.ashx?v=151" when I
> search with my domain I am interested in. I have tried
> urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor('screener.ashx?v=151') but that failed
> with attr has no cookie header.
> 
> From the HTTPCookieProcessor doco, it appears that non-IE browsers
> have a cookie file (and example code) but from what I can tell IE uses
> a hidden folder. (you can set your location in IE but it appends a
> folder "\Temporary Internet Files"  -
> 
> From: http://docs.python.org/dev/library/cookielib.html
> 
> ***
> This example illustrates how to open a URL using your Netscape,
> Mozilla, or Lynx cookies (assumes Unix/Netscape convention for
> location of the cookies file):
> 
> import os, cookielib, urllib2
> cj = cookielib.MozillaCookieJar()
> cj.load(os.path.join(os.environ["HOME"], ".netscape/cookies.txt"))
> opener = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor(cj))
> r = opener.open("http://example.com/")
> ***
> 
> Not sure how to adapt this for IE.

You could create a file that resembles the cookies.txt - no idea how that
looks, but I guess it's pretty simple. 

Diez