[Tutor] using pythnn to open a password protected website

[Norman Khine]

On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 1:27 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:33:36 pm richard west wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Im trying to use python to open up a password protected website(e.g.
>> facebook / gmail) in Firefox. supplying the login and password
>> automatically at runtime - so that I can interface my code with
>> fingerprint recognition code. So far I have only found urllib,
>> urllib2 and web browser, none of which I have been able to use.
>>
>> urllib2 can log me in, but then I cant pass this authenicated login
>> to the browser. At the very least I need to be able to send the form
>> post information to the browser via my code, and preferably
>> auto-submit the form.

You can also use twill http://twill.idyll.org/

>
> You might like to look at Mechanize, which is a third-party Python
> project for dealing with just that sort of problem.
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