terry kerr <terr-@adroitnet.com.au> wrote:

Umm...Yes, base64 didn't work for me, but neither did urllib.quote_plus() !! My pickled cookies have carrage returns in them, and unquoting the cookie just returns an error. The only method I have found so far is to string.replace all '\012' with "\\012".

I don't understand. You should use quote_plus() before setting the cookie, and unquote_plus() after retrieving the cookie. Steps: (1) You have a pickled object. (2) You use quote_plus() to transform the pickled object's string to another string. (3) You set the cookie with RESPONSE.setCookie() (4) You can now retrieve the cookie by using REQUEST.cookies['myCookieName'] (5) You unpickle the object. If your steps are different from the above, then I don't know what you are doing. :) A '\012' in the pickled object's string will be mapped to '%0a', which is perfectly fine to be stored as a cookie. Perhaps your problem is that you are not reading/writing your pickled file by using the binary tag as in 'rb' or 'wb'. myFile = open('myFileName', 'rb') myPickledString = myFile.read() myFile.close() .... myFile = open('myFileName', 'wb') myPickledString = urllib.unquote_plus( REQUEST.cookies['myCookieName']) myFile.write(myPickledString) myFile.close() Anyway, please outline your steps so I can take a look at why it isn't working for you. regards, Hung Jung ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com