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

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

Re: Manually adding cookies to WWW::Mechanize"s in-memory cookiejar

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 wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi Chris,
>>
>> From
>> http://search.cpan.org/~gaas/libwww-perl-5.805/lib/HTTP/Cook ies.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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>>
>

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