Bypass a web login when userid and password are known.

[Paul Rubin]

charles.wimpee at wku.edu (CDW) writes:
> I would like to know if it is possible to write a python cgi program
> that, when executed, can login to a website that uses cookies and
> requires a userid and password, then presents me with the first
> document past the login screen  just as though I had entered the login
> information manually (In other words, bypass the login if I know the
> userid and password). This is part of portal project that I have been
> doing some research on and it would go a long way toward helping us to
> establish a single sign-on portal.

The script can do a form post to the login page supplying the login
and password.  Urllib (or maybe urllib2) can do that pretty
straightforwardly.