Question about urllib and posting to an external script

EvanPMth

I have tried multiple ways of posting information to a website and have failed.

my first attempt was out of the docs:

this returned a page denying access
and then tried:

This returned a page that asked me if i wanted to sign up, which confused me even more.

all i want to do is post this form:
[HTML]<form method='POST' enctype='multipart/form-data' action='http://login.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=login.process&amp'>
<input type="text" name="email" >
<input type="password" name="password" >
<input type="submit" value="Login"/>[/HTML]

Please help i was thinking maybe the site did browser sniffing and only allowed certain types. i dont know.

Sep 4 '06 #1

lself

Get ClientCookie from http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/ClientCookie/

Inside the ClientCookie-x.x.x directory, you will find a directory called ClientCookie. Copy it to C:\Python2x\Lib\site-packages.

Change youremail, yourpassword, and anyfriendid in the following code:

This loads (as an example) the View All Comments page of the user with anyfriendid--something you must be logged in to do. If you wish to do something else, it should be easy to infer how.

I have tried multiple ways of posting information to a website and have failed.

my first attempt was out of the docs:

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1. import httplib, urllib
2. params = urllib.urlencode({'email' : 'a@a.com', 'password' : 'pass'})
3. h = httplib.HTTP("login.myspace.com:80")
4. h.putrequest("POST", "/index.cfm?fuseaction=login.process&amp")
5. h.putheader("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 <Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv;1.8.0.6> Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6")
6. h.putheader("Content-length", "%d" % len(params))
7. h.putheader('Accept', 'text/plain')
8.  
9. h.endheaders()
10. h.send(params)
11. reply, msg, hdrs = h.getreply()
12. print reply # should be 200
13. data = h.getfile().read() # get the raw HTML
14. print data 

this returned a page denying access
and then tried:

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1. import httplib, urllib
2. params = urllib.urlencode({'email' : 'ezikz@bonbon.net', 'password' : 'dicksuck'})
3. data = urllib.urlopen("http://login.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=login.process&amp:80", params).read() 
4. print data 

This returned a page that asked me if i wanted to sign up, which confused me even more.

all i want to do is post this form:
[HTML]<form method='POST' enctype='multipart/form-data' action='http://login.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=login.process&amp'>
<input type="text" name="email" >
<input type="password" name="password" >
<input type="submit" value="Login"/>[/HTML]

Please help i was thinking maybe the site did browser sniffing and only allowed certain types. i dont know.

Jan 7 '07 #2

bartonc

Get ClientCookie from http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/ClientCookie/

Inside the ClientCookie-x.x.x directory, you will find a directory called ClientCookie. Copy it to C:\Python2x\Lib\site-packages.

Change youremail, yourpassword, and anyfriendid in the following code:

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1. import urllib
2. import urllib2
3. import ClientCookie
4.  
5. params = urllib.urlencode({'email':'youremail','password':'yourpassword'})
6. request = urllib2.Request("http://login.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=login.process&amp",params)
7. response = urllib2.urlopen(request)
8. c = ClientCookie.Cookies()
9. c.extract_cookies(response,request)
10. request2 = urllib2.Request("http://comment.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewComments&friendID=anyfriendid")
11. c.add_cookie_header(request2)
12. url2 = urllib2.urlopen(request2)

This loads (as an example) the View All Comments page of the user with anyfriendid--something you must be logged in to do. If you wish to do something else, it should be easy to infer how.

There is great info here for our members. Thank you for taking the time to post. I hope that you stick around, ask some, answer some, or just post some code that you are working on.

Jan 8 '07 #3