Question

Does anyone know how to retrieve javascript cookies in gae python? I’ve seen complicated examples around the web, like cookiejar, but I think that module is too much for my simple site. I’m just trying to make a shopping cart that will take js cookies, send it to server-side code (python) for verification, and then post the data to google checkout.

Thanks 🙂

Answer 1

Hope this code would help with your problem, w/ helpful link:

from google.appengine.ext import webapp

class MyRequestHandler(webapp.RequestHandler):
    def get(self):
        self.response.out.write(self.request.cookies.get('cookiename'))

If you are little bit confused JS cookies and the HTTP cookies are just the same. See this article for more clear explanation.
Cookies are always transferred between server and client within the HTTP header. In this code we are just using the ‘Set-cookie‘ header within the request from client in server. request.cookies is a Python dict with cookies inside.