How to set and retrieve cookie in HTTP header in Python?

Question

I need to get the cookies from a HTTP response sent by a server and put it in the next request\'s header. How can I do it?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Look at urllib module:

(with Python 3.1, in Python 2, use urllib2.urlopen instead) For retrieving cookies:

>>> import urllib.request
>>> d = urllib.request.urlopen("http://www.google.co.uk")
>>> d.getheader('Set-Cookie')
'PREF=ID=a45c444aa509cd98:FF=0:TM=14.....'

And for sending, simply send a Cookie header with request. Like that:

r=urllib.request.Request("http://www.example.com/",headers={'Cookie':"session_id=1231245546"})
urllib.request.urlopen(r)

Edit:

The "http.cookie"("Cookie" for Python 2) may work for you better:

http://docs.python.org/library/cookie.html