On Thursday, January 24, 2013 8:29:51 PM UTC-5, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > I need to write a Python script to do the following: > > > > - Connect to a URL and accept any certificate - self-signed or > authoritative > > - Provide login name/password credentials > > - Fill in some presented fields > > - Hit a "Submit" button > > > > Why? Because I don't want to have to start a browser and do this > > interactively every time I authenticate with a particular server. > > I want to do this at the command line with no interactive intervention. > > > > I know Python pretty well. I don't quite know how to do this and > > was hoping someone had a simple pattern they could share for > > doing this. > > > > TIA, > > -- > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com > > PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/
The mechanize module (http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/mechanize/) might be a place to start. I've done something similar with code like this: response = mechanize.urlopen(login_form_url) forms = mechanize.ParseResponse(response, backwards_compat=False) response.close() form = forms[0] # might be more than one, though # fill the form form.set_value(username, name='userName') form.set_value(password, name='password') # set headers - user-agent, etc. login_request = form.click() login_response = mechanize.urlopen(login_request) login_response_content = login_response.read() ... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
