Cookie handling in Tornado

cookie.py

import tornado.ioloop
import tornado.web
import time
 
class Hello(tornado.web.RequestHandler):
    def get(self):
        self.write("Hello there")
 
class User(tornado.web.RequestHandler):
 
    def get(self):
        cookieName = "technobeans"
        if not self.get_cookie(cookieName):
                self.set_cookie(cookieName, str(time.time()))
                self.write("Cookie is now set")
        else:
                self.write("Cookie is " + cookieName)
 
application = tornado.web.Application([
    (r"/", Hello),
    (r"/user/", User),
])
 
if __name__ == "__main__":
    application.listen(8888)
    tornado.ioloop.IOLoop.instance().start()

cookie_request.py

import httplib2
h = httplib2.Http()
response, content = h.request("http://127.0.0.1:8888/user/", "GET")
print"HTTP GET request"
print "Reponse:", response, "\nContent:", content, "\nCookie:", response['set-cookie']
 
## Resending the request with cookie with headers
headers = {"Cookie":response['set-cookie']}
response_2, content_2 = h.request("http://127.0.0.1:8888/user/", "GET", headers = headers)
print "\nResending the request with cookie in headers"
print "Reponse:", response_2, "\nContent:", content_2

cookie_response.txt

HTTP GET request
Reponse: {'status': '200', 'content-length': '17', 'content-location': 'http://127.0.0.1:8888/user/', 'set-cookie': 'technobeans=1344314694.4; Path=/', 'server': 'TornadoServer/2.2', 'etag': '"25dcbbc84ce1fedc0d4bc15abdc23c4abb1a4006"', 'content-type': 'text/html; charset=UTF-8'} 
Content: Cookie is now set 
Cookie: technobeans=1344314694.4; Path=/
 
Resending the request with cookie in headers
Reponse: {'status': '200', 'content-length': '21', 'content-location': 'http://127.0.0.1:8888/user/', 'server': 'TornadoServer/2.2', 'etag': '"95bb30558d14b3d9eb37a1f1fccc5c84f546ce3a"', 'content-type': 'text/html; charset=UTF-8'} 
Content: Cookie is technobeans


** Deleting a cookie **
self.clear_cookie("user")