What is a good way to handle cookies in Pylons?

Question

I've seen a few references that say there is WSGI middleware to do it, but I don't know a lot about the choices for WSGI middelware that handles cookies.

Answer 1

You dont need anything special with pylons (0.9.7), it all works out of the box:

from pylons import request, response

#set a cookie
response.set_cookie( cookiename , some_string, max_age=180*24*3600 )

#read a cookie
request.cookies.get( cookiename )

#remove a cookie
request.cookies.pop( cookiename, None )

Pylons uses Webob (request, response) are (webob.Request, webob.Response) objects.

Answer 2

The .pop above should be

response.delete_cookie('cookie_name')