same error is coming .....Have u solved this problem On Thursday, March 4, 2010 4:17:48 PM UTC+5:30, Emma F wrote: > > Has anyone ever had any success accessing the django admin site via > either of these tools? > > I'm working on a view that will convert a particular dynamically- > generated page in my site to a PDF file, which can then be downloaded > from the server. I originally tried to do this using this reportlab/ > pisa method described in the documentation, but it couldn't cope with > the formatting required, so I'm on to plan B: wkhtmltopdf, run as a > command-line tool via subprocess.Popen in the django view. If I > can't get that to work, I will have the view mirror the page with wget > (again using Popen) and then run wkhtmltopdf off that local copy on > the server. > > Both methods work perfectly with a local copy of the page I've saved > from my browser. However, I'm having difficulties making it work > automatically from the view, with live pages from the application. I'm > trying to use the --post option of wkhtmltopdf to log in via the login > form and then convert the page. I can get this method to work with > various other sites on the web, but something goes wrong when I try > with my django admin site. > > I'm using the standard authentication that comes with the django admin > site, and on examing the code for the login form fields, it looks like > so: > > <form action="/mysite/admin/" method="post" id="login-form"> > <input type="text" name="username" id="id_username" /> > <input type="password" name="password" id="id_password" /> > <input type="hidden" name="this_is_the_login_form" > value="1" /> > <input type="hidden" name="post_data" value="" /> > <input type="submit" value="Log in" /> > </form> > > I've tried to translate the names and values of those fields into > wkhtmltopdf --post commands. (I'm not too sure about the hidden > post_data field with the value of "", so that could be where the > problem lies: I've tried leaving it out altogether, leaving the second > argument to that --post blank, using "" and using + to stand in for a > space, but the result is always the same.) > > Here's what I plug in: > > wkhtmltopdf --post username myname --post password mypassword --post > this_is_the_login_form 1 --post post_data +[or whatever I'm using] > http://www.server.com/mysite/admin index.pdf > > And the result is a pdf of a django debug page, telling me: > > ****************** > Exception Type: MultiPartParserError > Exception Value: Invalid boundary in multipart: None > Exception Location: /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/ > http/multipartparser.py in __init__, line 65 > > ****************** > > Using the alternative method - wget to try and mirror the file, I > translate the form like this: > > wget -m --post- > > data='username=myname&password=mypassword&this_is_the_login_form=1&post_data= > +' http://www.server.com/mysite/admin > > And get an "Error 500: Internal Server Error" method in the command > line. > > > Can anyone suggest what might be going wrong here - is it something to > do with the way I'm handling the hidden, valueless "post_data" form > field? Or something else I'm doing wrong?... Or is there some inherent > feature of the django admin authentication that is going to prevent > this process working? > > Thank you to anyone who can help! > >
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