Hari Sekhon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want to create a test that will do a proper login test to a web site > but I need some pointers. > > I need to login to the website by accessing an https url and posting > to that, which should return a very small 302 reply with the address > of the internal page. I need to take that page href and then access > it, if I can do all that then the test passes. Of course because I > have to access two urls I also need cookies for session handling. I've > already tried bash which would have worked but for the cookie handling > and webinject which is written in Perl, but this doesn't do exactly > what I want in terms of output so I'd rather write something > myself. (I'm also curious as to the best way to do this) > > If anybody knows how to do this could they please give me a quick > pointer and tell me what libraries I need to go read up on?
You could just use httplib, or urllib2 (using urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor) if you need to handle cookies. However, personally I prefer using a higher-level tool that knows a bit more about web-browser behaviour, e.g.: http://www.idyll.org/~t/www-tools/twill.html http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=display&name=ZopeTestbrowser both of which are based on: http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/mechanize/ (BTW, I hear there's work going on on an implementation of zope.testbrowser that delegates to Selenium instead of to mechanize -- cool.) John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list