On Friday, January 25, 2013 2:29:51 AM UTC+1, 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, >
Hello Tim, I think you may also want to take a look at python requests. http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/user/advanced/ >From my experience they do a much nicer job than urllib and anything I've >tried. You will probably get what you want out of them easily and in no time. -- cheers, john -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
