Re: [Caml-list] cookies in netclient

[Hendrik Tews <tews@cs.ru.nl>]

Gerd Stolpmann <info@gerd-stolpmann.de> writes:

   >    Unfortunately, get_set_cookie is missing (I have an implementation if
   >    you really need it).
   > 
   > This one would retrieve the cookies as an Nethttp.cookie list? I
   > don't know yet if I need it.

   yes. You find it if you need it:

   https://godirepo.camlcity.org/wwwsvn/trunk/code/get-set-cookie.ml?rev=1145&root=lib-ocamlnet2&view=auto


In my opinion it would be more convenient to have something of
type 

   #Nethttp.http_header_ro -> Nethttp.cookie list

eg

let get_set_cookies mh =
  List.map get_set_cookie (mh#multiple_field "set-cookie")


Further I propose to add a function to set cookies that accepts a
cookie list, like 

let set_cookies mh l = 
  Nethttp.Header.set_cookie mh 
    (List.map (fun c -> (c.Nethttp.cookie_name, c.Nethttp.cookie_value)) l)


The docs for http_call#request_header says

 The user should set the following headers:

    * Content-length: Set this to the length of the request body
      if known. (The client falls back to HTTP 1.0 if not set!) 

Do I have to care about this when using
Nethttp.Header.set_cookie?

>From what I read in the docs, it was not clear to me if
#request_header returns a copy of the header. I.e. do I have to
#set_request_header after modifying the header? (It works
without, so I guess #request_header does not copy.)


Yet another question: The docs for Netmime.mime_body_ro#value
says it will return the decoded body. But in which encoding? For
instance, if I want to extract pieces of an html page, what
should I pass as in_enc:Netconversion.encoding to
Netencoding.Html.decode? (At the moment decode_to_latin1 works
fine with me, but that's probably not the right way.)


Ocamlnet works now fine for me: Thanks for this great package!

Bye,

Hendrik