"Ant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am using urllib2 as a part of a web testing tool. One of the things I > am testing is the effect of two different people perforing the same > actions on the website - do they interfer with each other or not. > > So to emulate this, I essentially have the following function: > > def get_opener(): > policy = cookielib.DefaultCookiePolicy(rfc2965=True) > cj = cookielib.CookieJar(policy) > return urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor(cj)) > > Now am I right in thinking that since I am creating a separate > CookieJar for each opener, then creating two openers and using one for > each hypothetical user will achieve this effect - i.e. sessions will be > separate from each other in the app, since the openers will return > different session cookies back to the server.
Yes. As far as cookies are concerned, anyway (and assuming you're not sharing cookies by e.g. loading and saving from a single file, obviously). Presumably the two users will also be separate login users too (i.e. have separate usernames and passwords -- or other credentials). John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
