The cookie header needs to be passed in as a single string that has the format of "Header: Value", i.e., <div style="margin-left: 40px;">(get-pure-port <url> (list "Cookie: <key>=<value>; <key2>=<value2>...")) </div> If you need to make SSL requests, you can use my bzlib/http package's http-get, which uses list of key/value pairs as strings: <a href="http://planet.plt-scheme.org/display.ss?package=http.plt&owner=bzlib">http://planet.plt-scheme.org/display.ss?package=http.plt&owner=bzlib</a> <div style="margin-left: 40px;">(require (planet bzlib/http/client)) (http-get <url> `(("Cookie" . "<key>=<value>; <key2>=<value2>..."))) </div> You can of course use net/cookie to generate the the cookie header values via print-cookie. <a href="http://docs.plt-scheme.org/net/cookie.html#(def._((lib._net/cookie..ss)._print-cookie))">http://docs.plt-scheme.org/net/cookie.html#(def._((lib._net/cookie..ss)._print-cookie))</a> Cheers, yc <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Ralf Seliger <<a href="mailto:admin@kreidestaub.de">admin@kreidestaub.de</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi, I want to download the contents of a certain news article using get-pure-port. I know the exact URL of the article. The site requires a session cookie to grant access to article. After registering and logging in manually via browser I have determined the name and the value of the current session cookie. Now I figure that all I have to do is call get-pure-port according to (get-pure-port URL [header]) and pass along the cookie using the optional header parameter. What I can't figure out, though, is how to put together the header such that the server accepts the cookie and grants access to the article. Any help would be appreciated. Regards, Ralf Seliger _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: <a href="http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-scheme" target="_blank">http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-scheme</a> </blockquote></div>