[techtalk] reading cookies in IE5 w/ python

Tricia Bowen bowen at starmedia.net
Tue Feb 15 17:37:42 EST 2000


help!

is there anyone out there that knows how to read IE5 cookies using python.
i tried this approach but IE5 does not appear to have an environment
variable called HTTP_COOKIE.

------code------
import os, cgi, Cookie 
c = Cookie.Cookie() 
try: 
    c.load(os.environ["HTTP_COOKIE"]) 
except KeyError: 
    pass

------error-----
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "SM/safeexec.py", line 48, in safeexec
    func()
  File "/usr/local/smn/smurph2/current/redirect.py", line 76, in main
    c.load(os.environ["HTTP_COOKIE"])
  File "/usr/local/lib/python1.5/UserDict.py", line 14, in __getitem__
    def __getitem__(self, key): return self.data[key]
KeyError: HTTP_COOKIE

-tricia

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Tricia Bowen
Applications Engineer
Starmedia Network
v: 212.520.6469
m: 917.578.3425



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