On Sep 3, 10:17 pm, Larry Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rex wrote: > > Hello, > > > I am working on an academic research project where I need to log in to > > a website (www.lexis.com) over HTTPS and execute a bunch of queries to > > gather a data set. I just discovered the mechanize module, which seems > > great because it's a high-level tool. However, I can't find any decent > > documentation for mechanize apart from the docstrings, which are > > pretty thin. So I just followed some other examples I found online, to > > produce the following: > > > baseurl = 'http://www.lexis.com/' > > br = mechanize.Browser() > > br.set_handle_robots(False) > > br.addheaders = [('User-Agent', 'Firefox')] > > br.open(baseurl) > > br.select_form(name="formauth") > > br["USER_ID"]="my_user_id" > > br["PASSWORD"]="my_password" > > result = br.submit() > > > This code hangs at br.submit(), and I can't tell what I'm doing wrong. > > Typically I would inspect the HTTP data with an HTTP debugging proxy > > (Fiddler), but I guess since this is HTTPS I can't do that. Any > > glaring errors in my code? > > > By the way, does anyone have suggestions for Python modules that I > > should use instead of mechanize (and that are sufficiently easy)? If > > mechanize fails, I might try modifying some similar Perl code a friend > > sent me that logs into lexis.com. > > > Thanks so much, > > > Rex > > I've used mechanize quite successfully but others have suggested > Twillhttp://twill.idyll.org/. It seems to be at least documented. > > -Larry
Thanks for the reply, Larry. I ran my code again and it worked; there was probably some temporary issue with either my computer or the server that caused it to hang. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
