Cookies without cookiejar about requests

[kennethreitz]

I considered this originally, but TBH haven't used cookiejars enough to know what the most common/simplest method is.

Without investigating, my thought it it would be simple to roll out support for both at the same time.

Can you give me an example of how you'd pass in cookies by themselves and how that'd be useful? It would be much appreciated.

[jgorset]

I think @mcilrain might have been proposing something along the lines of...

requests.get('http://google.com', cookies={'cookie': 'value'})

I'll venture a guess that he was not aware that requests saves cookies it receives and attaches them to subsequent requests, though, which (besides being really awesome) complicates things because cookies set in this way would lack traits like expiry and domain.

It's entirely possible to create cookies programatically as it is, however it's... uh... a bit tedius:

from cookielib import CookieJar, Cookie

cookie = Cookie(
    version=0,
    name='Name',
    value='1',
    port=None,
    port_specified=False,
    domain='www.example.com',
    domain_specified=False,
    domain_initial_dot=False,
    path='/',
    path_specified=True,
    secure=False,
    expires=None,
    discard=True,
    comment=None,
    comment_url=None,
    rest={'HttpOnly': None},
    rfc2109=False
)

cookie_jar = CookieJar()
cookie_jar.set_cookie(cookie)

requests.get('http://google.com', cookies=cookie_jar)

I didn't specify 17 arguments to Cookie for fun, by the way; they're all required. It's pretty clear (and documented, too) that developers are not expected to construct their own cookies.

I can see how being able to do that might be really useful, though.

[kennethreitz]

Cookie.SimpleCookie() makes this easier.

import Cookie, cookielib, requests
# create cookiejar
cj = cookielib.CookieJar()
# create cookie
ck = Cookie.SimpleCookie()
ck.name = 'value'
ck.expires = 0
ck.path = '/'
ck.domain = 'www.example.com'
# add cookie to cookiejar
cj.set_cookie(ck)
# use cookiejar to make request
response = requests.get('http://www.example.com/home.php', cookies=cj)

( From http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6285378/how-can-i-use-a-cookie-to-enter-and-download-a-web-page-in-python/6285548#6285548 )

[hellman]

So why not to make support both for this (dict-like)

requests.get('http://google.com', cookies={'cookie': 'value'})

and CookieJar way?

It's really useful when you need to pass cookies directly, for example PHPSESSID cookie. Yes, you can do a few more requests to login into a website and automatically set cookies, but this is too much work for that.