[jacktasia]

i was using the Cookie module before to handle all of my login stuff but i was getting warnings in my error log not to use it so i want to switch to use cookielib ...but i am very confused on how to use it. i am usually very good at figuring stuff out....but i don't really know that much about cookies and with using PHP before i came over to python...cookies and sessions, were pretty freaking easy. and http://www.python.org/doc/current/li...cookielib.html isn't really helping me at all.

so what's the best way to be up to date and use python as my main server-side language... for my logins too.

i hope all of this made sense, thanks guys

[jacktasia]

anybody? :P

i guess what i meant to say in so many words was:

what do you use (w/ python 2.4) to handle cookies/sessions for your webapps? that doesn't use a deprecated module such as Cookie...


thanks again

[netytan]

Hey Jack,

I don't really know how I missed this thread twice . Sorry for that!

Anyway, I would definitely suggest using cookielib over Cookies, which if you ask me is a terrible module! It's annoyed me so much that I even wrote my own

I haven't used the cookielib module yet but it does look to have become more complex, although it does offer more control & better features now .

You mention "login" in your first post. Are we talking about CGI here or are you using it for something else? I guess: what do you want to do exactly?

Hope this helps,

Mark.

[jacktasia]

thanks for replying netytan!

i just have a basic login script that i wrote that sets a cookie so the other pages they travel to also know that they're logged in, like a session. and then kill the cookie on logout.

i wrote a class before (based heavily on someone elses) that used Cookie, but i can't find an example on how to actually use cookielib...and i really don't know that much about cookies, as i said before i used to just let php handle them for me, but now i am pretty into python and i am getting warnings in my error log like i said above (that i shouldn't use Cookie anymore), and i don't want to make it too easy for anyone to break in if there is a problem with the Cookie module.

and yeah this is just cgi, i am not using zope or whatever else is out there.

i hope this clears it up

thanks for your help

[netytan]

Hey Jack, this is just to let you know I haven't forgotten about you. I am looking for information on using cookielib with CGI but I haven't turned anything up as of yet. Right now it looks more like the module is for use with remote sites rather than on a server.

If I don't find anything soon I'll get in touch with the Python guys and see if they can gi'me a hit.

Take care,

Mark.

[jacktasia]

hey netytan, thanks

i haven't had any luck finding anything online, but i am still trying.

thanks for staying with me

[netytan]

I think I've figured this out, and your going to laugh when I tell you. The cookielib module isn't for use in CGI scripts, rather this is what the Cookie module is for – obviously .

The module itself hasn't been depreciated (like I assumed) but the Cookie/SmartCookie() class has, so using it generates a warning like you see in your log. Luckily you can still use the BaseCookie() and SimpleCookie() classes without any annoyances .

>>> import Cookie
>>>
>>> Cookie.Cookie()
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/Cookie.py:712: DeprecationWarning: Cookie/SmartCookie class is insecure; do not use it
  DeprecationWarning)
<SmartCookie: >
>>> Cookie.BaseCookie()
<BaseCookie: >
>>> Cookie.SimpleCookie()  
<SimpleCookie: >
>>>

This can probably be sorted in about 10 minutes so the change over shouldn't be anything too major. It just seems that we were looking in the wrong direction .

Hope this helps,

Mark.

[jacktasia]

haha, wow

thanks netytan, now i know in what direction i need to go and it should be smooth sailing from here. thanks again.