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

Fred L. Drake, Jr. fdrake@beopen.com
Wed, 2 Aug 2000 09:37:50 -0400 (EDT)

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. BeOpen PythonLabs Team Member