It looks like you are wanting a session cookie (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie#Session_cookie). These are a bit of a special case usage of cookies; your server issues each HTTP client (usually a web browser) a unique ID that is used to track some state on the server. This is generally impossible to know in advance.

If you trace the HTTP traffic in a browser, I bet you make two requests; one where the server issues the session cookie (frequently a login page), and then another that POSTs to node/create.

In drakma you can do the same thing, make two requests, and use the same 'drakma:cookie-jar in both requests. Some psuedo-code:

(let ((cookie-jar (make-instance 'drakma:cookie-jar))) (drakma:http-request "http://path/to/create/session" :method :post :cookie-jar cookie-jar)

(drakma:http-request "http://path/to/create/node" :method :post :cookie-jar cookie-jar) )

The drakma:cookie-jar will accept the session cookie from the server in the first http-request, and then pass it back to the server in the second http-request. Of course, you'll need to fill out the http-request parameters to match what your server is asking for.

HTH,

Ryan Davis Acceleration.net Director of Programming Services 2831 NW 41st street, suite B Gainesville, FL 32606

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On 2/9/2012 4:32 PM, Michael Minerva wrote:

I'm sorry if my question is unclear but I just started using Drakma today and I am not very experienced with http-requests in general.

I am trying to create an http-request that looks something like this:

POST /?q=node/create HTTP/1.1 Host: localhost:8888 Cookie: SESSdc0685ed01f285dab628a3700259e6bc=rCfmWLUeugRQNAQTs14yox_DWqZyGE2fYUS8W24j4co Content-Length: 0 Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

I tried doing this with a cookie-jar and a cookie but the make-instance of cookie required parameters such as name which I do not have (and did not need when I made the http-request by other means). I wanted to see the actual http-post that was being created so I could compare it to other successful http-posts and try and find my problem (is this what header-stream might help with)?

--Mike On Feb 9, 2012, at 2:09 PM, Edi Weitz wrote:

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You know about this, don't you?

http://weitz.de/drakma/#*header-stream*

Otherwise, I don't really understand your question. Perhaps you could tell us what exactly you tried, what happened, and what you expected to happen.

Cheers, Edi.

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 9:41 PM, Michael Minerva minerva@agentsheets.com wrote:

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I just started using drakma today and so far it seems really great but I had a couple quesitons.

First, is it possible to send a simpler for example i want my http-post to have something like this:

Cookie: SESSdc0685ed01f285dab628a3700259e6bc=rCfmWLUeugRQNAQTs14yox_DWqZyGE2fYUS8W24j4co

I tried making a drakma cookie and adding it to a cookie-jar but none of that seemed to work.

Also, is there a way to print the actual post I am sending so I can see what might be wrong with it?

Thanks a lot,

--Mike

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