Specifically, those ***** little things called Netscape Cookies that have been causing headaches since 1995 (yep, you read that right).

Now, if you’re like me and prefer your code over your caffeine fix in the morning, then you might be wondering how to handle these ***** cookies when making requests with Python Requests. I’m here to help you out.

Before anything else what Netscape Cookies are and why they exist. In a nutshell, Netscape Cookies (also known as HTTP cookies) are small text files that websites store on your computer when you visit them. These cookies contain information like your login credentials or shopping cart items, which the website can use to remember who you are and what you’ve done in previous visits.

Now, if you’re thinking “Hey, this sounds a lot like session management!”, then you’d be right. In fact, Netscape Cookies were originally designed as a way for websites to implement their own session management system without having to rely on server-side technologies (like PHP or ASP).

So how do we handle these cookies when making requests with Python Requests? Well, it’s actually pretty simple all you have to do is add the `cookies` parameter to your request object and pass in a dictionary of cookie values. Here’s an example:

# Import the necessary libraries
import requests # Import the requests library to make HTTP requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup # Import the BeautifulSoup library to parse HTML content

# Set up our session with cookies
session = requests.Session() # Create a session object to persist cookies across requests
session.cookies['username'] = 'your_username' # Add the username cookie to the session
session.cookies['password'] = 'your_password' # Add the password cookie to the session

# Make a request to the website and parse its HTML content
response = session.get('https://www.example.com') # Use the session object to make a GET request to the website
soup = BeautifulSoup(response.content, 'html.parser') # Use BeautifulSoup to parse the HTML content of the response

In this example, we first create a new `Session()` object with Python Requests (which allows us to reuse cookies across multiple requests). We then set up our session by adding two Netscape Cookies one for the username and another for the password. Finally, we make a GET request to the website using our session object and parse its HTML content using Beautiful Soup.

And that’s it! With just a few lines of code, you can now handle Netscape Cookies like a pro when making requests with Python Requests. So next time someone asks you about RFC 2109 or Netscape Cookies in Python, you can confidently say “I got this!”

Later!