Putting a `Cookie` in a `CookieJar`

Question

I\'m using the new Python Requests library to make http requests. I obtain a cookie from the server as text. How do I turn that into a CookieJar with the cookie

Answer 1

Assuming that you have requested for url and you got headers as response. Type type of url is string. Type type of headers is list.

import urllib2
import cookielib

class dummyResponse:
    def __init__(self,headers):
        self.headers=headers
    def info(self):
        return dummyInfo(self.headers)

class dummyInfo:
    def __init__(self,headers):
        self.headers=headers
    def getheaders(self,key):
        #Headers are in the form: 'Set-Cookie: key=val\r\n'. We want 'key=val'
        newMatches=[]
        for header in self.headers:
            if header.lower().startswith(key.lower()):
                clearHeader=header[len(key)+1:].strip()
                newMatches.append(clearHeader)
        return newMatches

req=urllib2.Request(url)
resp=dummyResponse(headers)

jar=cookielib.CookieJar()
jar.extract_cookies(resp, req)