Help getting cookies using ifHttpAgent?

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Hi,

I’m new to BrightScript but trying to put together a proof of concept for Roku as a streaming client for IP VOD from my employer, a paytv broadcaster. I’m trying to grab a session id from a cookie on our website so I can pass it back as part of a JSON login data structure but I’m really struggling to get more than the header and body back from the server. This is my best attempt so far: I can only make the GetCookies call at the expense of not getting the header and body, and I still don’t get any cookies :(. Any help appreciated …


    url = "http://www.geekzone.co.nz"    
    request = CreateObject("roUrlTransfer")
    request.SetUrl( url )
    request.EnableCookies()
    request.EnableFreshConnection(true)

     xport=CreateObject("RoMessagePort")
     request.setport(xport)
     if (request.asyncPostFromSTring("t"))
          '"request.async is true"
          msg = wait(0,xport)
          '"we should have a message"
          if type(msg) = "roUrlEvent"
            '"ok we have a url event"
          hedone={}
          hedtwo={}
            hedone=msg.GetResponseHeadersArray()
            hedtwo=msg.GetResponseHeaders()
	    body=msg.GetString()
 	    code=msg.GetResponseCode()       
            event={result:hedone, headers:hedtwo, body:body, code:code}      
          end if
     end if

    'html = request.GetToString()
    'print html
    'print "len body = ", len(body)

    print "getting geekzone cookies"
    cookies = request.GetCookies( ".geekzone.co.nz", "/" ) 
    print "printing geekzone cookies"
    for each cookie in cookies
       print cookie
    end for
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What the.. what? When did they add cookie support to ifHttpAgent? :shock:

Edit: I’ve never used it (obviously), so I can’t answer directly how to use GetCookies, but you could just pull the cookie directly from the headers you retrieved when you got the content.

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Thanks for the quick response. I initially tried some cut’n’paste hackery around parsing headers for cookies before I found the GetCookies call. For some reason (maybe redirects, not sure) I couldn’t see the Set-Cookie in the headers returned. I’ve got a little python script that shows geekzone returns a cookie on their main page so I’ll go back to that & see if I can parse a cookie out of the header on the Roku. Cheers

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Did you ever figure out how to get Cookies to print out?