Login using usrllib2

[Jon Clements]

On Dec 1, 10:16 am, Chris Rebert <c... at rebertia.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 1:53 AM,  <dudeja.ra... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi All,
>
> > I'm using urllib2 module to login to an https server. However I'm unable to
> > login as the password is not getting accepted.
>
> > Here is the code:
>
> > import urllib2, urllib
> > values={'Username': 'admin', 'Password': 'admin123'}
> > url='https://172.25.17.20:9443'
> > data = urllib.urlencode(values)
>
> > data = urllib.urlencode(values)
> > req = urllib2.Request(url, data)
> > response = urllib2.urlopen(req)
> > the_page = response.read()
> > print the_page
>
> > The error message I get in the_page output is the same as I get when I
> > access this site using a browser and supply a wrong password. It appears
> > password is not accepting.
>
> > I'm new to web programming. The aim is to automate user clicks on a web
> > server which can be replicated using python and http. Please suggest / help.
>
> You should probably use something like Firefox's "Live HTTP Headers"
> extension to see what exactly the web browser is doing when you
> normally login to the site, so that you can correctly replicate the
> browser's actions in your script.
> The site may be using HTTP Basic or HTTP Digest authentication, in
> which case you'll need to use urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler or
> urllib2.HTTPDigestAuthHandler.
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
> --http://blog.rebertia.com

If the OP is doing this a lot I would suggest installing FF's Firebug
extension. Then use the Net tab to monitor activity. Also the OP might
want to look at the urllib2.HTTPSHandler.

Jon