Web authentication urllib2

[Gabriel]

Oh, nevermind, it's working.
Thanks

Gabriel wrote:
> First, thank you both
> 
> I think this isn't basic auth, because this page has form login.
> I read site's html source and used wireshark to analyze communication 
> between my browser and website and i really find out that a was ignoring 
> one field
> 
> I added it to the parameters but it didn't help..
> Maybe i'm still missing something
> 
> Here's the post packet:
> http://student.fiit.stuba.sk/~sevecek06/auth.txt
> 
> and here's the code again, with little change and real web location added:
> 
>     opener = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor())
>     urllib2.install_opener(opener)
> 
>     params = urllib.urlencode(dict(login='login', pwd='pass', page=''))
>     f = opener.open('https://www.orangeportal.sk/', params)
>     data = f.read()
>     f.close()
> 
> Login and pass are fake ofc.
> 
> Thank you in advice for any help.
> 
> 
> Steve Holden wrote:
>> Gabriel wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I'm new in Python and i would like to write script which need to login
>>> to a website. I'm experimenting with urllib2,
>>> especially with something like this:
>>>
>>>     opener = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor())
>>>     urllib2.install_opener(opener)
>>>
>>>     params = urllib.urlencode(dict(username='user', password='pass'))
>>>     f = opener.open('https://web.com', params)
>>>     data = f.read()
>>>     f.close()
>>>
>>> And the problem is, that this code logs me in on some sites, but on
>>> others doesn't, especially on the one I really
>>> need to login. And i don't know why. So is there some way how to debug
>>> this code and find out why that script cannot
>>> login on that specific site?
>>>
>>> Sorry if this question is too lame, but i am really beginner both in
>>> python and web programming .)
>>>
>> That's actually pretty good code for a newcomer! There are a couple of
>> issues you may be running into.
>>
>> First, not all sites use "application-based" authentication - they may
>> use HTTP authentication of some kind instead. In that case you have to
>> pass the username and password as a part of the HTTP headers. Michael
>> Foord has done a fair write-up of the issues at
>>
>>   http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles/authentication.shtml
>>
>> and you will do well to read that if, indeed, you need to do basic
>> authentication.
>>
>> Second, if it *is* the web application that's doing the authentication
>> in the sites that are failing (in other words if the credentials are
>> passed in a web form) then your code may need adjusting to use other
>> field names, or to include other data as required by the login form. You
>> can usually find out what's required by reading the HTML source of the
>> page that contains the login form.
>>
>> Thirdly [nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition ...], it may be that
>> some sites are extraordinarily sensitive to programmed login attempts
>> (possible due to spam), typically using a check of the "Agent:" HTTP
>> header to "make sure" that the login attempt is coming from a browser
>> and not a program. For sites like these you may need to emulate a
>> browser response more fully.
>>
>> You can use a program like Wireshark to analyze the network traffic,
>> though you can get add-ons for Firefox that will show you the HTTP
>> headers on request and response.
>>
>> regards
>>  Steve
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