Hi Kent Thanks for your reply. According to your instruction I have tried in Python interactive window the following (in my test I have used real username and password):
>>> import urllib2 >>> import urllib >>> opener = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor()) >>> urllib2.install_opener(opener) >>> params = urllib.urlencode(dict(username='user', password='pass')) >>> f = opener.open('https://investor.firstrade.com/firstrade/login.do', params) >>> data = f.read() >>> f.close() >>> f = opener.open('https://investor.firstrade.com/firstrade/mainmenu.do') >>> data = f.read() >>> print(data) It printed out login page which means I wasn't able to login to the main page. There must be some sofisticated trick to login to www.Firstrade.com. Any Idea what else can I try? Cheers, Fedo On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 at 12:45:47, Kent Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 3:39 AM, Federo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi .. > > > > I have to admit that Python is really surprising me. It was lucky day a > few > > weeks ago I firts time start using Python. Lot's of things realy can be > done > > with short learning curve. Your user guieds was best place to start! > > > > Below is problem I am unable to solve. I would appreciate your advice or > > even better code sample. The problem is URL authorisation. > > I have a writeup on form-based authentication here: > http://personalpages.tds.net/~kent37/kk/00010.html#e10form-based-authenticati > on > > Kent ____________________ http://www.email.si/ _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor