From: Warren Brown <warrenbrown@...>
Date: 2005-05-26T01:38:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Browsing with Cookies

Jim,

> One of them relys on cookies to get the data in a form I
> can use. Net::HTTP appears not to use cookies, even if
> you're inside the same .start block.
> ...
> Is there a way to provide a cookie?  I could likely
> synthesize the information that the server was looking for.

    A cookie is just another HTTP header, so you can add it manually in
the second parameter (headers) of Net::HTTP#get or Net::HTTP#post.  The
format is pretty simple:

Cookie: $Version="1"; MyKey="MyValue"; $Path="/mypath"

    See RFC2965 for the nitty-gritty details.

    I hope this helps.

    - Warren Brown