please excuse my ignorance of Python. i know enough to be dangerous (was able however to make Freevo support my FM tuner with a little hacking).
Ultimate goal: read N bytes from PATTERN on page A into VARIABLE. POST VARIABLE into TABLE on site B. email VARIABLE to myself. what i have to work with: --------------------------- #!/usr/local/bin/python from urllib import urlopen from re import search URL = "http://wifirouter/WL_WPATable.asp"; pattern = "wl_key1 value='*([0-9,a-f,]*)" doc = urlopen(URL).read() result = search(pattern, doc) print result.group(1) --------------------------- I'm trying to update the WEP key on a wireless router via script and email the results to myself. this will be run once a week. Site A already generates random keys, so i figure that's a good place to get VARIABLE from. The example above gives me the current key of the router. What i'm having trouble with is the key on site A (one i wrote myself http://www.hal-pc.org/networking/cgi-bin/wepgen.cgi ) provides 128bit keys by default, but i only want to use 64bit (10 characters). so.. rather than make it select 64bit and all i figure it would be easier to use the above example for getting the /current/ key, modified it to read the entire 26 character string from site A, but [1] how do i crop it to 10 characters. [2] how can i then auto-login to site B (the router's web config via pop-up dialog box. *not* a form) and then [3] post VARIABLE and save the changes. I know this sounds like a lot, but if anyone can provide me with any example code i can maybe modify to fit, or point me to some good reference material. all the pages i found on logging into a site involve ssl and cookies, which, in this case at least, isn't involved here. If there is any other info i can provide (ie. sections of relevent HTML) then let me know. any assistance you have to offer is greatly appreciated. -- - - james <at> hal-pc.org - - "Friends don't let friends use Mandrake" - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
