urllib2 OpenerDirector question on usage.

[Ant]

Hello all,

I am using urllib2 as a part of a web testing tool. One of the things I
am testing is the effect of two different people perforing the same
actions on the website - do they interfer with each other or not.

So to emulate this, I essentially have the following function:

def get_opener():
policy = cookielib.DefaultCookiePolicy(rfc2965=True)
cj = cookielib.CookieJar(policy)
return urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor(cj))

Now am I right in thinking that since I am creating a separate
CookieJar for each opener, then creating two openers and using one for
each hypothetical user will achieve this effect - i.e. sessions will be
separate from each other in the app, since the openers will return
different session cookies back to the server.

Cheers,

Ant...

 

[John J. Lee]

I am using urllib2 as a part of a web testing tool. One of the things I
am testing is the effect of two different people perforing the same
actions on the website - do they interfer with each other or not.

So to emulate this, I essentially have the following function:

def get_opener():
policy = cookielib.DefaultCookiePolicy(rfc2965=True)
cj = cookielib.CookieJar(policy)
return urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor(cj))

Now am I right in thinking that since I am creating a separate
CookieJar for each opener, then creating two openers and using one for
each hypothetical user will achieve this effect - i.e. sessions will be
separate from each other in the app, since the openers will return
different session cookies back to the server.

Yes.

As far as cookies are concerned, anyway (and assuming you're not
sharing cookies by e.g. loading and saving from a single file,
obviously). Presumably the two users will also be separate login
users too (i.e. have separate usernames and passwords -- or other
credentials).


John