Question

I’m using Google App Engine. How do I set either multiple cookies or a multi-value cookie with a single response?

Right now I’m using this code from the URL http://localhost:8085/server/showcookie?emailAddress=[e-mail]&secretCode=1

C = Cookie.SimpleCookie()
C["emailAddress"] = self.request.get('emailAddress')
C["secretCode"] = self.request.get('secretCode')
C["secretCode"]["path"] = "/"
header_value = C.output(header='')
self.response.headers.add_header("Set-Cookie", header_value)

which doesn’t work because the value of header_value is emailAddress=”[e-mail]” secretCode=1; Path=/ which is not a well formed header (its missing a comma). How can I create a well formed cookie with both values?

Answer 1

Using two SimpleCookie objects solves it:

C1 = Cookie.SimpleCookie()
C1["emailAddress"] = self.request.get('emailAddress')
C2 = Cookie.SimpleCookie()
C2["secretCode"] = self.request.get('secretCode')
C2["secretCode"]["path"] = "/"
self.response.headers.add_header("Set-Cookie", C1.output(header=''))
self.response.headers.add_header("Set-Cookie", C2.output(header=''))