twisted.web.client.CookieAgent

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class CookieAgent: (source)

Implements interfaces: twisted.web.iweb.IAgent

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CookieAgent extends the basic Agent to add RFC-compliant handling of HTTP cookies. Cookies are written to and extracted from a cookielib.CookieJar instance.

The same cookie jar instance will be used for any requests through this agent, mutating it whenever a Set-Cookie header appears in a response.

Present Since
11.1
Method __init__ Undocumented
Method request Issue a new request to the wrapped Agent.
Instance Variable cookieJar Initialized cookie jar to read cookies from and store cookies to.
Method _extractCookies Extract response cookies and store them in the cookie jar.
Instance Variable _agent Underlying Twisted Web agent to issue requests through.
def __init__(self, agent, cookieJar): (source)

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def request(self, method, uri, headers=None, bodyProducer=None): (source)
from twisted.web.iweb.IAgent

Issue a new request to the wrapped Agent.

Send a Cookie header if a cookie for uri is stored in CookieAgent.cookieJar. Cookies are automatically extracted and stored from requests.

If a 'cookie' header appears in headers it will override the automatic cookie header obtained from the cookie jar.

See Also
Agent.request
cookieJar: cookielib.CookieJar = (source)
Initialized cookie jar to read cookies from and store cookies to.
def _extractCookies(self, response, request): (source)
Extract response cookies and store them in the cookie jar.
Parameters
response:twisted.web.iweb.IResponseTwisted Web response.
requestA urllib2 compatible request object.
_agent: twisted.web.client.Agent = (source)
Underlying Twisted Web agent to issue requests through.