Edward Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > can anybody explain, in the first case why i need to do two attempts. > > I would guess it's because redhat requires your browser to submit a session > cookie with the login form. In the urllib2 example, the first request you > make tries to submit login form data directly. Since it's your first hit > on their site, you don't have a cookie yet. People browsing interactively > would at least load the login page first before submitting it. > > Your twill example takes care of this by requesting a page before trying to > login. > > That would be my guess.
Uh, yeah you're right actually. Forget what I said about Refresh... John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
