hello, i would start with tracing the request that is sent from your python script and making sure it is similar to the one sent from the login form by the browser.
konstantin On Sep 18, 5:50 pm, Carol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > HI, > > I'm writing a Django app that allows access to pages either > through a web interface - Django forms - or through a > python script. > I am using Django 1.0, Python 2.4, Apache 2.2, mod_python and posgres > 8.1.1. > OS is Linux SuSE 10.1. > > Everything works through the web interface. > The user needs to go through login(). I have a login form that works. > The @login_required decorator works too. > > My trouble is with the external python script. > (right now I'm just trying it out using the 'fortune' program) > > import urllib > import urllib2 > import sys, os > > username = 'Eeore' > password = 'eeore' > > top_level_url = "http://pengines.loc/login/"; > fortune_url = "http://pengines.loc/PETools/fortune/Sulu/"; > > # invokes fortune -m <parm> where <parm> is ... > > # create the password handler > password_mgr = urllib2.HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm() > > # record the username and password that we would send to > # the login page > password_mgr.add_password(None, top_level_url, username, password) > > # create password authorization handler for HTTP with our > # password manager > handler = urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler(password_mgr) > > # create an 'opener' that uses the authorization handler > # this will login to our site with our authorization password > # every time our site requests it > opener = urllib2.build_opener(handler) > > # use the opener directly to fetch a fortune > > f = opener.open(fortune_url) > print f.read() > > All I get back is the login form. The Apache access_log shows > the redirect to the login form page (good) but the authentication > doesn't happen or something. > > I could have sworn that I had this all working fine last night using > Mac OS X 10.4.11, mySql ?, Apache 2.2, mod_python, python 2.5.1 and > Django 1.0. (but I fool myself so easily these days...) > > Does all this seem reasonable? Am I going about this the right way? > If so, what could be the causing the trouble? Apache configuration? > python 2.4 versus 2.5? postgres vs mySql? Home versus work? > > Thanks for attention. > Best wishes, > Carol --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
