Re: About retrieving cookies...

Hi Victor,

Cookies are send to the browser in the HTTP header, so yes set them befor=
e any write operation as the headers are send at the first write.

Next, Why are you trying to get the contents from a cookie which is store=
d on the "client" via a call to the server, it is not logical,=20
I suggest you read about cookies and how they work. I can give you a very=
 long description about how cookies work but this is not mod_python relat=
ed.

If you really want to do this (I do not see any reason though). Google on=
 "access cookies from javascript" or do a search on "document.cookie". Li=
ke Firefox (I think FF uses javascript for this too).
you CAN access it locally. Use Firebug (javascript debug plugin) to inves=
tigate stuff.

I hope this helps

Martijn



On Mar 4, 2010, at 4:49 PM, V=EDctor wrote:

> Dear all,
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> I've got a bunch of problems using cookies. First, it seems that if
> you want to store a cookie, you MUST do it before any req.write()
> sentence, isn't it?
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> Next... I've managed to store a simple cookie named "login_cookie"
> with value 100. I can see it in the cookies manager in firefox, and it
> has the right value. The cookie has an expiration time of 30 days from
> now.
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> The problem is that... it's absolutely impossible to retrieve it from
> the browser.
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> I have a small test page with this javascript function (it uses prototy=
pe):
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> function accessPage(){
> 				new Ajax.Request(access_base_dir+'access', {
> 		=09
> 					method: 'post',
> 				=09
> 					onSuccess: function(response) {
> 						$("resultados").innerHTML =3Dresponse.responseText;
> 					},
> 				=09
> 					onFailure:function(response) {
> 						$("resultados").innerHTML=3D "Failed to access."+response.respons=
eText;
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> 					}
> 				});
> 			=09
> 			}
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> This function just asks 'access' to return the content. 'access' looks
> like this:
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> @_session_getter
> def access(req):
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> 	(logged,user_id) =3D getSessionData(req)
> =09
> 	all_cookies =3D Cookie.get_cookies(req)
> =09
> 	req.write("Access: " +str(all_cookies))
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> And guess what, it only writes Access: {'pysid': } , the session
> cookie, but "login_cookie" is not anywhere.
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> My apache config for this folder is:
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> <Directory "htdocs/python/test">
> 	AddHandler mod_python .py
> 	PythonHandler mod_python.publisher
> 	PythonDebug On
> </Directory>
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> Do you know If I'm missing anything obvious that prevents the cookie
> retrieval to work?
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> Thanks!,
> --=20
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> V=EDctor Gil Sep=FAlveda
> E. Informatica - FIB - UPC
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