On 01/25/2013 10:01 AM, Steve Petrie wrote:
On Thursday, January 24, 2013 8:29:51 PM UTC-5, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
I need to write a Python script to do the following:
- Connect to a URL and accept any certificate - self-signed or authoritative
- Provide login name/password credentials
- Fill in some presented fields
- Hit a "Submit" button
Why? Because I don't want to have to start a browser and do this
interactively every time I authenticate with a particular server.
I want to do this at the command line with no interactive intervention.
I know Python pretty well. I don't quite know how to do this and
was hoping someone had a simple pattern they could share for
doing this.
TIA,
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The mechanize module (http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/mechanize/) might be a
place to start. I've done something similar with code like this:
response = mechanize.urlopen(login_form_url)
forms = mechanize.ParseResponse(response, backwards_compat=False)
response.close()
form = forms[0] # might be more than one, though
# fill the form
form.set_value(username, name='userName')
form.set_value(password, name='password')
# set headers - user-agent, etc.
login_request = form.click()
login_response = mechanize.urlopen(login_request)
login_response_content = login_response.read()
...
Thanks.
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