On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 12:46 PM, Leo <ttdh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi there, > > I have decided to jump in at the deep end to try and learn python. I have > been able to get requests to pull the login page off the server and I think > send the login request. I don't get logged in though. Please let me know if > I would be better off asking in a phpBB related group or forum. > Here is my code without username and password included:
You need cookies. In order to do it, simply use sessions instead of the “global” API. Code: import requests payload = {'username': 'username', 'password': 'password'} session = requests.Session() r = session.post("http://www.tt-forums.net/ucp.php?mode=login",data=payload) sidStart = r.text.find("sid")+4 sid = r.text[sidStart:sidStart+32] parameters = {'mode': 'login', 'sid': sid} r = session.post("http://www.tt-forums.net/ucp.php",params=parameters,data=payload) if "Logout" in r.text: print("We are in") (for the record, I added the session creation line and replaced requests. with session. so it uses your session. This code was not tested on a real phpBB forum; if everything you coded is correct, it will work.) -- Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick <http://kwpolska.tk> PGP: 5EAAEA16 stop html mail | always bottom-post | only UTF-8 makes sense -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list