I figured it out... Just turned the POST request into a GET to see what was getting appended to the URL - thanks Gabe!
Gabriel Genellina wrote: > At Monday 7/8/2006 20:58, wipit wrote: > > >I need to process a HTML form in python. I'm using urllib2 and > >HTMLParser to handle the html. There are several steps I need to take > >to get to the specific page on the relevant site the first of which is > >to log in with a username/password. The html code that processes the > >login consists of 2 edit boxes (for User ID and Password) and a Submit > >button which uses ASP.net client side validation as follows (formatted > >for clarity): > > Another approach would be using HTTPDebugger > <http://www.softx.org/debugger.html> to see exactly what gets > submitted, and then build a compatible Request. > On many sites you don't even need to *get* the login page -nor parse > it-, just posting the right Request is enough to log in successfully. > > > > Gabriel Genellina > '@'.join(('gagsl-py','.'.join(('yahoo','com','ar')))) > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Preguntá. Respondé. Descubrí. > Todo lo que querías saber, y lo que ni imaginabas, > está en Yahoo! Respuestas (Beta). > ¡Probalo ya! > http://www.yahoo.com.ar/respuestas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list