[Tutor] urllib2 & form submit

[Ed Hotchkiss]

i am trying to write a class to log into myspace. either i am doing
something wrong, or... myspace is requiring that i accept a cookie, or
create a session? however i am new to urllib and urllib2.
 heres my code:
correctly formatted code is at: http://www.jeah.net/~marla/myspace.py
 #!/bin/env python

# -----------

import sgmllib
import urllib
import urllib2
import urlparse

# -----------

class myspace:

# login to one myspace account
def login(self, user, password):
the_url = "
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=login.process"
user_agent = 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT)'
headers = { 'User-Agent' : user_agent }
values = { 'email' : user,
'password' : password }
data = urllib.urlencode(values)
req = urllib2.Request(the_url, data)
try:
handle = urllib2.urlopen(req)
except IOError:
print 'Something went wrong'
else:
x = handle.read()
temp = open("edspage.html", "w")
temp.write(x)
temp.close()

# add friend based on users URL
def addFriend(self, friendURL):
return 1

# delete friend based on users URL
def deleteFriend(self, friendURL):
return 1

# post a friends bulletin
def postBulletin(self, bulletin):
return 1

# read all bulletins into a tuple named 'bulletins'
def readBulletins(self):
bulletins = {}

# a photo to your profile
def addPhoto(self, photoLocation):
return 1

# delete a photo from your profile
def deletePhoto(self, photoID):
return 1

# return a tuple of people that match your browsing criteria
def browse(self, sex, ageBegin, ageEnd, gayBiStraight, zipCode, zipRange):
return 1

# stick someones myspace page into an html file
def grabUserPageHTML(self, xURL, outputFile):
req = urllib2.Request(xURL)
handle = urllib2.urlopen(req)
thepage = handle.read()
temp = open(outputFile, "w")
temp.write(thepage)
temp.close()

def logout(self):
return 1

# -----------

# example of class usage

me = myspace()
me.login("xxx at gmail.com", "password here")
#me.grabUserPageHTML("http://www.myspace.com/blahuser/","blah.html")
#me.logout()

# -----------
EOF
  the form uses POST method. the action for the form is the_url. what am i
doing wrong? all that the script does, is to refer me to another login page.
is it detecting somehow that i am a script and not a users browser? any help
would be appreciate, lost in the water here.

--
edward hotchkiss
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