Log-in to forums (using cookielib)?

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Tue, 01 May 2007 05:39:14 -0300, Olivier Oost <nomail at gmail.com>  
escribió:

> Gabriel Genellina wrote:
>> En Tue, 01 May 2007 04:44:57 -0300, Olivier Oost <nomail at gmail.com>  
>> escribió:
>>
>>> Can someone please tell me how I should log-in and leave a message on  
>>> the board?
>>  Sure. But considering that this smells like an Automatic Spamming  
>> Machine, I hope nobody will.
> No, it's not meant as a spamming machine. I only need to post a message  
> and then (if that's possible) lock the topic (I'm admin on the forum  
> where I need this). The program first needs to read the topic for  
> certain words (that's already working), and then reply that those words  
> aren't welcome.

I would verify that in the forum code if possible, not remotely.
Anyway, the examples at the end of the cookielib section in the library  
reference are what you need: create an OpenerDirector using  
urllib2.build_opener, adding a suitable HTTPCookieProcessor handler.

-- 
Gabriel Genellina