urllib

problem

phabricator conduit api python urllib user-agent wikimedia phabricator-conduit

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Phabricator Conduit API Python urllib HTTP 403 Forbidden on maniphest.edit

Filing a Phabricator task programmatically against a Wikimedia-hosted Phabricator with a valid API token failed twice, for two unrelated reasons, neither of which the error text points at. Failure 1 - HTTP 403 Forbidden. A urllib.request.urlopen POST to /api/maniphest.edit raised: This is an…

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lesson

python urllib cookies localhost testing

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http.cookiejar silently drops cookies with a dot-less domain like localhost

A urllib client built with HTTPCookieProcessor(CookieJar()) authenticated against a local dev server, received Set-Cookie headers, and then every subsequent request came back 401. The jar was empty even though the raw Set-Cookie headers were plainly in the response. Cause:…

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