Re^6: WWW Mechanize and JavaScript Cookie

yes, for sure :-) Try to visit with your Perl script (or with the mine, that is similar) a page like this:

<?php 
setcookie("TestCookie", 'mytest', time()+3600, "/", "localhost", 0);



 ?> 
<html>
<head>
<script>
    

function setCookie(cookieName,cookieValue,nDays) {
 var today = new Date();
 var expire = new Date();
 if (nDays==null || nDays==0) nDays=1;
 expire.setTime(today.getTime() + 3600000*24*nDays);
 document.cookie = cookieName+"="+escape(cookieValue)
                 + ";expires="+expire.toUTCString();
}

function ReadCookie(cookieName) {
 var theCookie=""+document.cookie;
 var ind=theCookie.indexOf(cookieName+"=");
 if (ind==-1 || cookieName=="") return "";
 var ind1=theCookie.indexOf(";",ind);
 if (ind1==-1) ind1=theCookie.length; 
 return unescape(theCookie.substring(ind+cookieName.length+1,ind1));
}




setCookie('cookJS','prova13',5);
alert('- -  -');
alert(ReadCookie('TestCookie') );
alert(ReadCookie('cookJS') );
alert('- -  -');
</script>


</head>

<body>



</body>

</html>
[download]

As you can see, the perl output shows the content of the cookie wrote with PHP ('TestCookie'), not the cookie I wrote via JavaScript ('cookJS').

So you can't write a cookie via JavaScript. You can only read them.

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Re^7: WWW Mechanize and JavaScript Cookie by Anonymous Monk on Mar 16, 2011 at 16:46 UTC
I see no problem #!/usr/bin/perl -- use strict; use warnings; use WWW::Scripter; my $w = WWW::Scripter->new; $w->use_plugin('JavaScript'); #~ http://www.w3schools.com/JS/js_cookies.asp #~ http://www.w3schools.com/JS/tryit.asp?filename=tryjs_cookie_usernam +e #~ http://www.w3schools.com/JS/tryit_view.asp?filename=tryjs_cookie_us +ername $w->set_prompt_function( sub { 'teh usernaem ' } ); $w->get('http://www.w3schools.com/JS/tryit_view.asp?filename=tryjs_coo +kie_username'); print $w->cookie_jar->as_string, "\n\n"; print $w->document->body->as_text; __END__ Set-Cookie3: ASPSESSIONIDCARTDDCR=EFEIMDHAHLJNFCHKOGLODEKM; path="/"; +domain=www.w3schools.com; path_spec; discard; version=0 Set-Cookie3: username=teh%20usernaem%20; path="/JS"; domain=www.w3scho +ols.com; expires="2012-03-15 16:43:55Z"; version=0 [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^8: WWW Mechanize and JavaScript Cookie by saintex (Scribe) on Mar 16, 2011 at 22:11 UTC
Hello, on Friday I will try you page, and I will tell you, if your sample works with my setup (JavaScript.pm Spidermonkey and so on...) For now, thank youQ	[reply]
Re^9: WWW Mechanize and JavaScript Cookie by saintex (Scribe) on Mar 18, 2011 at 10:16 UTC
Hello, I tried your code and also my original code and I have: `Segmentetion fault` [download] with both scripts. The error occurred is when try to processing this page: http://www.w3schools.com/JS/tryit_view.asp?filename=tryjs_cookie_username	[reply] [d/l]
Re^10: WWW Mechanize and JavaScript Cookie by Anonymous Monk on Mar 18, 2011 at 15:29 UTC
Re^11: WWW Mechanize and JavaScript Cookie by saintex (Scribe) on Mar 19, 2011 at 08:51 UTC
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