Re: Manually adding cookies to WWW::Mechanize's in-memory cookie jar

Hi Chris,

Just create a cookie jar of your own, then pass it into $mech at 
creation time.
my $cj = HTTP::Cookies->new();
my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new ( cookie_jar => $cj )

The name cookie_jar is documented, so you can probably safely use the 
cookie jar that $mech creates for you.
Cheers,
Peter



Christopher Hart wrote:

> Thanks Peter.  What I'm having trouble with is finding how to get
> access to the cookie jar that WWW::Mechanize maintains.  I'm familiar
> with using HTTP::Cookies with LWP and manually creating cookies, but I
> can't find how/where the Mechanize module makes this object available
> through its interface. Do you have any ideas on that?  Any help is
> appreciaed.
>
> Thanks!
>
> On 6/18/06, Peter Stevens <peter.stevens@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >  Hi Chris,
> >
> >  From
> > http://search.cpan.org/~gaas/libwww-perl-5.805/lib/HTTP/Cookies.pm
> > (HTTP::Cookies):
> >
> >  $cookie_jar->set_cookie( $version, $key, $val, $path, $domain, $port,
> > $path_spec, $secure, $maxage, $discard, \%rest )
> >
> > The set_cookie() method updates the state of the $cookie_jar. The $key,
> > $val, $domain, $port and $path arguments are strings. The $path_spec,
> > $secure, $discard arguments are boolean values. The $maxage value is a
> > number indicating number of seconds that this cookie will live. A 
> > value <= 0
> > will delete this cookie. %rest defines various other attributes like
> > "Comment" and "CommentURL". Googling for cookie_jar->set_cookie 
> > produces a
> > few hundred pages - one of them should do ;-)
> >
> >  Cheers,
> >
> >  Peter
> >
> >
> >
> >  Christopher Hart wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> >  I need to simulate some JavaScript that creates a cookie using
> >  WWW::Mechanize.  How can I programmatically add a cookie to the
> >  in-memory cookie jar?  I searched around for some examples on this,
> >  but wasn't able to find anything.
> >
> >  Any help is appreciated.  Thanks!
> >
> >  Chris
> >
> >
> >
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