from mimetools import Message
from StringIO import StringIO
from cookielib import CookieJar
from urllib2 import Request
self.headers = Message(StringIO('\n'.join(valid_lines)))
#self.headers = dict(self.message)
self.cookiejar = CookieJar()
self.cookiejar.extract_cookies(self, Request(self.url))
for cookie in self.cookiejar:
self.cookies[cookie.name] = cookie.value
print 'HEADERS', self.headers
print 'COOKIES', self.cookies