Re: Downloading Web pages that require cookies

[Dave Cragg]

On 30 Aug 2004, at 17:28, Anthony Craine wrote:
Is it possible, using Transcript's various URL scripting commands, to
download Web pages that require cookies in order to be downloaded? Or
would it make more sense to embed a UNIX curl command within a script 
in
Revolution? I know that curl can send cookie info to a Web server to
retrieve pages; I can't determine if Transcript has a command that can
do the same.

Yes, it's possible.
When making a url request, you would send the cookie by setting the 
httpHeaders property. I can't remember exactly the format for a cookie 
header, but it's be something like this:

  Cookie: name=value
So you would do something like this (very roughly) in your script:
    put <some name> into tCookieName
    put <some data> into tCookieValue
    set the httpHeaders to "Cookie: " & tCookieName & "=" & tCookieValue
    get url myUrl
    set the httpHeaders to empty
To get the cookie that is sent by the server, you would use 
libUrlLastRHHeaders() and parse the data for the "Set-Cookie" header.

Dave
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