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pythonsessioncookiespython-requests
Markus Hedlund
Markus Hedlund

Reputation: 24254

Set new cookie between requests with Python Requests

I'm doing this right now, but it fails at that last line with TypeError: expected string or buffer.

import requests
from urllib.parse import urlparse

url = 'some url'

s = requests.Session()
s.headers.update({
    'Origin':urlparse(url).netloc,
    'Referer':url
})


r = s.get(url)

s.cookies['cookie1'] = 25
s.cookies['cookie2'] = 25

r = s.post(
    url,
    {'param':'value1', 'param2':'value2'},
    headers={'X-Requested-With':'XMLHttpRequest'}
)

What's the correct way to update the cookies when using Session? I'm pretty new to Python, so I might have confused something. Using Python 3.4.1.

Traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "file.py", line 37, in <module>
    {'param':'value1', 'param2':'value2'}
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 498, in post
    return self.request('POST', url, data=data, **kwargs)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 422, in request
    prep = self.prepare_request(req)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 360, in prepare_request
    hooks=merge_hooks(request.hooks, self.hooks),
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/requests/models.py", line 296, in prepare
    self.prepare_cookies(cookies)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/requests/models.py", line 491, in prepare_cookies
    cookie_header = get_cookie_header(self._cookies, self)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/requests/cookies.py", line 134, in get_cookie_header
    jar.add_cookie_header(r)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/http/cookiejar.py", line 1329, in add_cookie_header
    attrs = self._cookie_attrs(cookies)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/http/cookiejar.py", line 1288, in _cookie_attrs
    self.non_word_re.search(cookie.value) and version > 0):
TypeError: expected string or buffer

Upvotes: 3

Views: 26378

Answers (1)

Martijn Pieters
Martijn Pieters

Reputation: 1121744

Cookie values are strings, not integers. Set them as such:

s.cookies['cookie1'] = '25'
s.cookies['cookie2'] = '25'

Demo:

>>> import requests
>>> from urllib.parse import urlparse
>>> url = 'http://httpbin.org/cookies'
>>> s = requests.Session()
>>> s.headers.update({
...     'Origin':urlparse(url).netloc,
...     'Referer':url
... })
>>> r = s.get(url)
>>> s.cookies['cookie1'] = '25'
>>> s.cookies['cookie2'] = '25'
>>> r = s.get(url, headers={'X-Requested-With':'XMLHttpRequest'})
>>> print(r.text)
{"cookies": {"cookie1": "25", "cookie2": "25"}}

Upvotes: 11

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