Python: send HTTP requests with Cookie strings by using Session objects

Referred to http://www.python-requests.org/en/latest/user/quickstart/ , http://www.python-requests.org/en/latest/user/advanced/

# tail -1 /etc/lsb-release ;uname -ri DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 13.04" 3.8.0-33-generic x86_64 # pip install requests or # apt-get install python-requests

use http://httpbin.org/ for testing.

on the interactive mode,

>>> import requests >>> s = requests.Session() >>> r = s.get('http://httpbin.org/cookies') >>> r.headers {'content-length': '19', 'date': 'Tue, 26 Nov 2013 08:47:51 GMT', 'access-control-allow-origin': '*', 'content-type': 'application/json', 'connection': 'keep-alive', 'server': 'gunicorn/0.17.4'} >>> r.cookies <<class 'requests.cookies.RequestsCookieJar'>[]>

put cookie in the Cookie Jar.

error..

>>> cookies = dict(X-test-cookies='hello')  File "<stdin>", line 1 SyntaxError: keyword can't be an expression

>>> name = 'X-cookies' >>> val = 'hello' >>> cookies = {name: val} >>> cookies {'X-cookies': 'hello'}

send an HTTP request with Cookie

update headers

>>> s.headers.update(cookies) >>> s.headers {'X-cookies': 'hello', 'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip, deflate, compress', 'Accept': '*/*', 'User-Agent': 'python-requests/1.1.0 CPython/2.7.4 Linux/3.8.0-33-generic'} >>>

send the request.

>>> r2 = s.get('http://httpbin.org/cookies')

Here a capture data.

GET /cookies HTTP/1.1\r\n        [Expert Info (Chat/Sequence): GET /cookies HTTP/1.1\r\n]            [Message: GET /cookies HTTP/1.1\r\n]            [Severity level: Chat]            [Group: Sequence]        Request Method: GET        Request URI: /cookies        Request Version: HTTP/1.1    Host: httpbin.org\r\n    Content-Length: 0\r\n        [Content length: 0]    X-cookies: hello\r\n    Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, compress\r\n    Accept: */*\r\n    User-Agent: python-requests/1.1.0 CPython/2.7.4 Linux/3.8.0-33-generic\r\n    \r\n    [Full request URI: http://httpbin.org/cookies]