Re: [netcomics-devel] Cookie support?

[Chris H. <ho...@re...>]

: site a particular cookie.  Any idea if this is even feasible?  I don't
: know enough about the libwww-perl library to know where to start.  I
: know that both wget and curl support cookies, at least from a
: Netscape-style cookies.txt.  Any comments?

Adding an option to support cookies should be fairly straight forward.

LWP can handle cookies; When the LWP::UserAgent object is constructed,
you can specify an HTTP::Cookie object.  the default class uses a
proprietary format, but the LWP package comes standard with
HTTP::Cookies::Netscape which supports the more traditional file people
are used to (there's also a seperate HTTP::Cookies::Mozilla available, but
i'm not sure what the differenes are)

making the change to Netcomics::Factory to construct a new cookie object
and pass it to the $ua object should be fairly easy (search 'perldoc
LWP::UserAgent' for 'cookie_jar').  the hard part is deciding wether you
wnat to support multiple file formats or not.

Netcomics::ExternalUserAgent contains the wget command line used if the
person doesn't have LWP installed.  you can add the neccessary options
there.

--

-------------------------------------------------------------------
"Oh, you're a tricky one."                        Chris M Hostetter
     -- Trisha Weir                    ho...@re...