Home - News ( United States | United Kingdom | Italy | Germany ) - Football scores

Showing content from http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2000-August/007785.html below:

[Python-Dev] Cookies.py in the core (was Tangent to Re: [Tutor] CGI and Python (fwd))

• Previous message: [Python-Dev] Cookies.py in the core (was Tangent to Re: [Tutor] CGI and Python (fwd))
• Next message: [Python-Dev] Cookies.py in the core (was Tangent to Re: [Tutor] CGI and Python (fwd))
• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

Guido van Rossum writes:
 > I think Cookie.py is for server-side management of cookies, not for
 > client-side.  Do we need client-side cookies too????

  I think this would be highly desirable; we've seen enough requests
for it on c.l.py.

Moshe Zadka writes:
 > Not until we write a high-level interface to urllib which is similar
 > to the Perlish UserAgent module -- which is something that should
 > be done if Python wants to be a viable clients-side langugage.

  Exactly!  It has become very difficult to get anything done on the
Web without enabling cookies, and simple "screen scraping" tools need
to have this support as well.


  -Fred

-- 
Fred L. Drake, Jr.  <fdrake at beopen.com>
BeOpen PythonLabs Team Member

• Previous message: [Python-Dev] Cookies.py in the core (was Tangent to Re: [Tutor] CGI and Python (fwd))
• Next message: [Python-Dev] Cookies.py in the core (was Tangent to Re: [Tutor] CGI and Python (fwd))
• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

RetroSearch is an open source project built by @garambo | Open a GitHub Issue

Search and Browse the WWW like it's 1997 | Search results from DuckDuckGo

HTML: 3.2 | Encoding: UTF-8 | Version: 0.7.4