--- //Uranus/www/intern/temp/proxycore_alt.py	Wed Dec 19 15:25:45 2007
+++ //Uranus/www/intern/temp/proxycore.py	Fri Jan 18 11:58:23 2008
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 # Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 by Intevation GmbH
 # Authors:
 # Bernhard Herzog <bh@intevation.de>
+# Sascha Bahl <sbahl@gismobil.de>
 #
 # This program is free software under the GPL (>=v2)
 # Read the file COPYING coming with the software for details.
@@ -14,6 +15,8 @@
 import urllib2
 import BaseHTTPServer
 import socket
+import cookielib
+
 
 import inteproxy.transcoder
 from inteproxy.threadpool import ThreadPool
@@ -45,6 +48,11 @@
     #   >=2    Also logs all the data transferred by the proxy
     #
     debug_level = 0
+    
+    # keep the session
+    cj = cookielib.CookieJar()
+    opener = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor(cj))
+
 
     def do_SHUTDOWN(self):
         """Shutdown the server if self.allow_shutdown is True (default False).
@@ -117,6 +125,7 @@
             data = None
 
         request = urllib2.Request(remote_url)
+        
         for header, value in self.headers.items():
             if header.lower() == "host":
                 # the host header will be set by httplib and it should
@@ -153,6 +162,9 @@
         # through to the client.
         #
         try:
+            # Keep the session and resend the server cookies. 
+            urllib2.install_opener(self.opener)
+            
             response = urllib2.urlopen(request)
         except urllib2.HTTPError, err:
             # a HTTPError is a valid http response object, so we can