I am trying to automate access to a web page that has forms based authentication. The password field is named "pass" which python is not going to like.
Other than asking the website owner to change the name of the field how can I go about passing that field in the form post? dev:~$ python Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Jan 24 2010, 14:53:14) [GCC 4.3.2] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import urllib >>> params = urllib.urlencode(dict(past='foo')) >>> params = urllib.urlencode(dict(passs='foo')) >>> params = urllib.urlencode(dict(pass='foo')) File "<stdin>", line 1 params = urllib.urlencode(dict(pass='foo')) ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list