[mod_python] Cookies and redirect...

Thanks for the quick response!
This is working nicely now...

David

Gregory (Grisha) Trubetskoy wrote:

>This is a feature of Apache. When it sees an error response (all 204 (no
>content), 3xx (redirect), 4xx (client error) and 5xx (server error)),
>which includes HTTP_MOVED_TEMPORARILY (even though it's not an error
>technically), it sends out only req.err_headers_out. It does make a
>special provision for the Location header and copy it into err_headers_out
>if it's not already there, which is why it makes it through.
>
>You can send both headers by either:
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>   req.err_headers_out.add('Set-Cookie', morsel.OutputString())
>   req.err_headers_out.add('Location:', location)
>   return apache.HTTP_MOVED_TEMPORARILY
>
>or
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>   req.headers_out.add('Set-Cookie', morsel.OutputString())
>   req.status = apache.HTTP_MOVED_TEMPORARILY
>   return apache.OK
>
>Grisha
>
>
>On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, David Fraser wrote:
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>>Hi
>>
>>I came across the following problem and wondered if there was a workaround.
>>Basically I want to set a cookie in a certain directory, and at the same
>>time issue a Redirect to another place.
>>So I wanted to do:
>>  req.headers_out.add('Set-Cookie', morsel.OutputString())
>>  req.headers_out.add('Location:', location)
>>  return apache.HTTP_MOVED_TEMPORARILY
>>
>>However, I found that as soon as I return the HTTP_MOVED_TEMPORARILY,
>>the Set-Cookie string seems to be removed from the headers going to the
>>client (this was tested by using the livehttpheaders extension to Firebird).
>>I couldn't work out where in the code that was happening but suspect
>>that it is standard Apache behaviour.
>>Is this because I'm not supposed to be allowed to do this, or is it odd?
>>
>>(I have a workaround of having a page with a meta http-equiv="refresh",
>>but wondered if there is a way to get it working as would like...)
>>
>>Thanks
>>David
>>
>>
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