[Tutor] using pythnn to open a password protected website

[Alan Gauld]

"richard west" <richardbwest at gmail.com> wrote

> Im trying to use python to open up a password protected website(e.g.
> facebook / gmail) in Firefox. 

So you are trying to control Firefox not the web site?
Is that correct?

What mechanism are you using to communicate with Firefox?

> code. So far I have only found urllib, urllib2 and web browser, none of
> which I have been able to use.

urllib is for interacting with the web site not with the browser.

webbrowser is for launching a browser for a user to interact with, 
it does not really control the browser programatically.

You may need to use OS dependent tools like COM on 
Windows or maybe even GUI events/messages to drive the 
browser remotely. Are you sure that's really what you want to do?

Or do you really want to fill in and submit a web form on a 
page protected by a login? If thats the case you can do it all 
from Python without going near Firefox.

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Alan Gauld
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