twisted.web.client.CookieAgent(object)
class documentationtwisted.web.client
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Implements interfaces: twisted.web.iweb.IAgent
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 |
Instance Variable | cookieJar | Initialized cookie jar to read cookies from and store cookies to. (type: cookielib.CookieJar ) |
Method | __init__ | Undocumented |
Method | request | Issue a new request to the wrapped Agent . |
Instance Variable | _agent | Underlying Twisted Web agent to issue requests through. (type: twisted.web.client.Agent ) |
Method | _extractCookies | Extract response cookies and store them in the cookie jar. |
cookielib.CookieJar
)
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 |
Extract response cookies and store them in the cookie jar.
Parameters | response | Twisted Web response. (type: twisted.web.iweb.IResponse ) |
request | A urllib2 compatible request object. |