Re: urllib2 login help
You also might want to look at http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/mechanize/
It will do most of the hard stuff for you (sending form elements, keeping
track of cookies, etc.).
j
john.weather...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm having trouble using urllib2 (maybe) when trying to log into a web
> site that requires a user to enter a login name and a password
> (authentication). I've tried many things but none seem to work and
> have become stuck recently and was hoping to get a hint from those
> much more knowledgeable than myself.
>
> I want to automate logging on to the investopedia stock simulator web
> site.
>
> http://simulator.investopedia.com/authorization/login.aspx
>
> I can't seem to automate this successfully.
>
> My python script is below:
>
> import os,re
> import urllib, urllib2
>
> theurl = "http://simulator.investopedia.com/authorization/login.aspx";
>
> post_dict = { "ct100$MainPlaceHolder$usernameText": "XXX",
> "ct100$MainPlaceHolder$passwordText": "XXX", "ct100$MainPlaceHolder
> $loginButton": "Sign In", "ct100$MainPlaceHolder$rememberMeCheckBox":
> "on" }
>
> post_data = urllib.urlencode( post_dict )
>
> headers = { 'User-agent': 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows
> NT)',
> 'Host': 'simulator.investopedia.com',
> 'Referer': 'http://simulator.investopedia.com/
> authorization/login.aspx',
> }
>
> req = urllib2.Request( theurl, post_data, headers )
> response = urllib2.urlopen(req)
> the_page = response.read()
>
> The problem is that this page returned seems to be the same as the
> login page which I connected to initially. When I perform the login
> process manually things work as expected. What am I doing
> incorrectly?
>
> *ANY* hints/suggestions/directions would be very appreciated since
> I've run out of ideas of things to try at this point.
>
> Thanks very much
>
>
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Re: urllib2 login help
> > *ANY* hints/suggestions/directions would be very appreciated since > I've run out of ideas of things to try at this point. > The last time I heard something like this, I suggested that the problem might be cookies -- and it ended up working for the person I believe. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/4d78de927ee1e549 --S -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
urllib2 login help
Hello,
I'm having trouble using urllib2 (maybe) when trying to log into a web
site that requires a user to enter a login name and a password
(authentication). I've tried many things but none seem to work and
have become stuck recently and was hoping to get a hint from those
much more knowledgeable than myself.
I want to automate logging on to the investopedia stock simulator web
site.
http://simulator.investopedia.com/authorization/login.aspx
I can't seem to automate this successfully.
My python script is below:
import os,re
import urllib, urllib2
theurl = "http://simulator.investopedia.com/authorization/login.aspx";
post_dict = { "ct100$MainPlaceHolder$usernameText": "XXX",
"ct100$MainPlaceHolder$passwordText": "XXX", "ct100$MainPlaceHolder
$loginButton": "Sign In", "ct100$MainPlaceHolder$rememberMeCheckBox":
"on" }
post_data = urllib.urlencode( post_dict )
headers = { 'User-agent': 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows
NT)',
'Host': 'simulator.investopedia.com',
'Referer': 'http://simulator.investopedia.com/
authorization/login.aspx',
}
req = urllib2.Request( theurl, post_data, headers )
response = urllib2.urlopen(req)
the_page = response.read()
The problem is that this page returned seems to be the same as the
login page which I connected to initially. When I perform the login
process manually things work as expected. What am I doing
incorrectly?
*ANY* hints/suggestions/directions would be very appreciated since
I've run out of ideas of things to try at this point.
Thanks very much
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