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                                 ClientCookie

   ClientCookie is a [2]Python module for handling HTTP cookies on the
   client side, useful for accessing web sites that require cookies to be
   set and then returned later. It also provides some other (optional)
   useful stuff: HTTP-EQUIV and Refresh handling, automatic adding of the
   Referer [[3]sic] header and lazily-seek()able responses. These extras
   are implemented using an extension that makes it easier to add new
   functionality to urllib2. It has developed from a port of Gisle Aas'
   Perl module HTTP::Cookies, from the [4]libwww-perl library.
 import ClientCookie
 response = ClientCookie.urlopen("http://foo.bar.com/")

   This function behaves identically to urllib2.urlopen, except that it
   deals with cookies automatically. That's probably all you need to
   know.

   Python 1.5.2 or above is required, and urllib2 is recommended. If you
   have 2.1 or above, you've already got a recent enough version of
   urllib2. For Python 1.5.2, use this [5]urllib2 and this [6]urllib. For
   Python 2.0, you need the newer versions from Python 2.1 (available
   from the source distribution or CVS from [7]http://www.python.org/),
   or use the 1.5.2-compatible versions. Note that you don't need to
   replace the original urllib2 / urllib - you can just make sure they're
   in sys.path ahead of the copies from 2.0's standard library.

   For full documentation, see [8]here and the docstrings in the module
   source code.

   Other than Gisle, particular thanks to Johnny Lee (MSIE Perl code) and
   Ronald Tschalar (advice on Netscape cookies).

Download

   All documentation (including these web pages) is included in the
   distribution.

   Development release.
     * [9]ClientCookie-0.9.3a.tar.gz
     * [10]ClientCookie-0_9_3a.zip
     * [11]Change Log (included in distribution)
     * [12]Older versions.

   Stable release.
     * [13]ClientCookie-0.4.18.tar.gz
     * [14]ClientCookie-0_4_18.zip
     * [15]Change Log (included in distribution)
     * [16]Older versions.

   For installation instructions, see the INSTALL file included in the
   distribution.

FAQs - pre-install

     * Doesn't the standard Python library module, Cookie, do this?
       No: Cookie.py does the server end of the job. It doesn't know when
       to accept cookies from a server or when to pass them back.
     * Which version of Python do I need?
       1.5.2 or above.
     * Is urllib2.py required?
       No. You probably want it, though.
     * Which urllib2.py do I need?
       You don't, but if you want to use the extended urllib2 callables
       from ClientCookie, and you have Python 2.0, you need to upgrade to
       the version from Python 2.1 (or use the 1.5.2-compatible version).
       If you have Python 1.5.2, use this [17]urllib2 and [18]urllib.
       Otherwise, you're OK.
     * Which license?
       The [19]BSD license (included in distribution).
     * Where can I find out more about the HTTP cookie protocol?
       There is more than one protocol, in fact (see the [20]docs for a
       brief explanation of the history):
          + The original [21]Netscape cookie protocol - the standard
            still in use today, in theory (in reality, the protocol
            implemented by all the major browsers only bears a passing
            resemblance to the protocol sketched out in this document).
          + [22]RFC 2109 - obsoleted by RFC 2965.
          + [23]RFC 2965 - the Netscape protocol with the bugs fixed (not
            widely used - the Netscape protocol still dominates, and
            seems likely to remain dominant indefinitely, at least on the
            Internet). [24]RFC 2964 discusses use of the protocol.
            [25]Errata to RFC 2965 are currently being discussed on the
            [26]http-state mailing list (update: list traffic died months
            ago and hasn't yet revived).
          + A [27]paper by David Kristol setting out the history of the
            cookie standards in exhausting detail.
          + HTTP cookies [28]FAQ.
     * Which protocols does ClientCookie support?
       Netscape and RFC 2965. RFC 2965 handling is switched off by
       default.
     * What about RFC 2109?
       RFC 2109 cookies are currently parsed as Netscape cookies, and
       treated as RFC 2965 cookies thereafter. RFC 2109 is officially
       obsoleted by RFC 2965. Browsers do use a few RFC 2109 features in
       their Netscape cookie implementations (port and max-age), and
       ClientCookie knows about that, too.

   [29]John J. Lee, January 2004.
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References

   1. http://sourceforge.net/
   2. http://www.python.org/
   3. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt
   4. http://www.linpro.no/lwp/
   5. http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/bits/urllib2.py
   6. http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/bits/urllib.py
   7. http://www.python.org/
   8. http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/ClientCookie/doc.html
   9. http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/ClientCookie/src/ClientCookie-0.9.3a.tar.gz
  10. http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/ClientCookie/src/ClientCookie-0_9_3a.zip
  11. http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/ClientCookie/src/ChangeLog.txt
  12. http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/ClientCookie/src/
  13. http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/ClientCookie/src/ClientCookie-0.4.18.tar.gz
  14. http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/ClientCookie/src/ClientCookie-0_4_18.zip
  15. http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/ClientCookie/src/ChangeLog.txt
  16. http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/ClientCookie/src/
  17. http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/bits/urllib2.py
  18. http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/bits/urllib.py
  19. http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php
  20. http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/ClientCookie/doc.html
  21. http://www.netscape.com/newsref/std/cookie_spec.html
  22. http://www.ietf.org/rfcs/rfc2109.txt
  23. http://www.ietf.org/rfcs/rfc2965.txt
  24. http://www.ietf.org/rfcs/rfc2964.txt
  25. http://kristol.org/cookie/errata.html
  26. http://lists.bell-labs.com/mailman/listinfo/http-state
  27. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/502152.502153
  28. http://www.cookiecentral.com/
  29. mailto:jjl@pobox.com
  30. http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/
  31. http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/ClientCookie/doc.html
  32. http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/ClientForm/
  33. http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/DOMForm/
  34. http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/python-spidermonkey/
  35. http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/ClientTable/
  36. http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/mechanize/
  37. http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/pullparser/
  38. http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/bits/clientx.html
  39. http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/bits/urllib2_152.py
  40. http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/bits/urllib_152.py
  41. http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/ClientCookie/#download
  42. http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/ClientCookie/#faq_pre
