From: Ben Johnson <bjohnson@...>
Date: 2006-07-15T07:37:23+09:00
Subject: Handling cookies with Net::HTTP?

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I am having a strange problem and it is partly due to my poor  
understanding of cookies. So any help is greatly appreciated.

I am trying to navigate through a site which requires that I provide  
them with the cookies they send me. I am having some trouble here. I  
am grabbing the 'set-cookie' header they send back to me and storing  
each cookie in a hash like: cookies[name] = value. Here is the code I  
wrote for that:

def parse_cookie(set_cookie)
     # Attempt to pull out SID, BID, CID
     @cookies ||= {}
     ['SID', 'BID', 'CID'].each do |var|
       cookie = set_cookie.scan(/(#{var}=.*?);/)
       cookie = cookie.join('').split('=')
       @cookies[cookie[0]] = cookie[1] unless cookie.size != 2
     end
   end

I only want the SID, BID, and CID cookies.

Then when I send another request to them I am doing the following:

def cookies
     cookie_str = ''
     @cookies.each do |k, v|
       unless cookie_str == ''
         cookie_str << ';'
       end
       cookie_str << k << '=' << v
     end unless @cookies.nil?
     cookie_str
   end


req.add_field 'Cookie', cookies #this calls the above method


Which ended up sending the following 'Cookie' header:

SID=VpI2zrrUjHDufXLqUec5VEWPia-JgWWQH3k- 
DPOxEhOKcvtZh46eZxw2xrAwK5N645v3B4oRAtoI0b8_;BID=bWtbrEQbrPcZmyvFQoXsZoq 
qWYrhV81w1698hx5-e1NUQZqE-tg9K9K36pt_CFIXcuW- 
FOkplULieRehl4t5;CID=tSqTx-fWLck-ncBcWaZNUNo-XhTUc- 
lM0xyHTe1VDmrZzVrMty0u3qSeAw4uTA6eW6Kl

Am I not sending the cookie header properly, because the site is not  
accepting them. Do I need to include more information than just the  
name and the value?

Thanks for your help.

Thank You,
Ben Johnson
E: bjohnson@contuitive.com




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