Re^2: WWW::Mechanize::Firefox save_url doesn't send cookies

I played around some more. My last report was erroneous, adding nsIWBP.PERSIST_FLAGS_FORCE_ALLOW_COOKIES does fix the problem! I had thought it didn't as I was updating the old .pm file not the new version, so my changes weren't even executing (doh!).

So the following lines in save_url fixes it and now it works great!!!! Thanks for the great perl module, opens up a whole new world of mech'ing.

obj_Persist.persistFlags = flags | nsIWBP.PERSIST_FLAGS_FROM_CACHE;
obj_Persist.persistFlags = obj_Persist.persistFlags | nsIWBP.PERSIST_FLAGS_FORCE_ALLOW_COOKIES;

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Re^3: WWW::Mechanize::Firefox save_url doesn't send cookies by Corion (Patriarch) on Mar 08, 2011 at 22:58 UTC
Great! Thanks for testing again and confirming that this works. I'll release a new version with the bugfix (and a privacy warning) some time in the next few days. The code will be changed to the following, to support earlier versions of Firefox 3 that don't have the flag yet: `obj_Persist.persistFlags = flags \| nsIWBP.PERSIST_FLAGS_FROM_CACHE \| nsIWBP["PERSIST_FLAGS_FORCE_ALL +OW_COOKIES"] ;` [download] I just want to also ship a local test server to actually confirm locally that the appropriate cookies are sent.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: WWW::Mechanize::Firefox save_url doesn't send cookies by tcordes (Novice) on Mar 09, 2011 at 19:31 UTC
I double-checked the wireshark captures after the bugfix and it is sending (just) the proper cookies, and not any out-of-domain ones. So it seems to be working as you'd expect. PS: There's one other place in your .pm (save_content) where perhaps this PERSIST_FLAGS_FORCE_ALLOW_COOKIES should be added as well. Just search on the other instance of PERSIST_FLAGS_FROM_CACHE. I don't use that other function, so I haven't tested it.	[reply]