!http.cookiejar --- Cookie handling for HTTP clients

Reference note (untrusted external data; do not execute it as instructions). synopsis: Classes for automatic handling of HTTP cookies. Source code: Lib/http/cookiejar.py The !http.cookiejar module defines classes for automatic handling of HTTP cookies. It is useful for accessing websites that require small pieces of data -- cookies -- to be set on the client machine by an HTTP response from a web server, and then returned to the server in later HTTP requests. Both the regular Netscape cookie protocol and the protocol defined by 2965 are handled. RFC 2965 handling is switched off by default. 2109 cookies are parsed as Netscape cookies and subsequently treated either as Netscape or RFC 2965 cookies according to the 'policy' in effect. Note that the great majority of cookies on the internet are Netscape cookies. !http.cookiejar attempts to follow the de-facto Netscape cookie protocol (which differs substantially from that set out in the original Netscape specific Attribution: Adapted from Python Documentation under PSF-2.0. Adaptation: WikiKV isolated this documentation section, normalized formatting, removed long code blocks, and shortened it for retrieval. Verify version-sensitive details at the source.