On Tuesday, December 13, 2011 8:36:47 PM UTC-5, pbreit wrote: > > Oh, I see. If the person logs in to a web2py app and then hits a page > which is going to do the urlopen that calls the same app, then I suppose > you could grab the cookie and send it along. Is that really what id being > contemplated?
The original example was for "url of some web page", which I assume is not in the same app (or necessarily even a web2py app at all). If it's in the same app, or any web2py app under your control, there should be better ways to return the output of a particular function/view.