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:

import httplib, urllib
params = urllib.urlencode({'email' : '[e-mail]', 'password' : 'pass'})
h = httplib.HTTP("login.myspace.com:80")
h.putrequest("POST", "/index.cfm?fuseaction=login.process&amp")
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")
h.putheader("Content-length", "%d" % len(params))
h.putheader('Accept', 'text/plain')
 
h.endheaders()
h.send(params)
reply, msg, hdrs = h.getreply()
print reply # should be 200
data = h.getfile().read() # get the raw HTML
print data 

this returned a page denying access
and then tried:

import httplib, urllib
params = urllib.urlencode({'email' : '[e-mail]', 'password' : 'dicksuck'})
data = urllib.urlopen("http://login.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=login.process&amp:80", params).read() 
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.

[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:

import urllib
import urllib2
import ClientCookie
 
params = urllib.urlencode({'email':'youremail','password':'yourpassword'})
request = urllib2.Request("http://login.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=login.process&amp",params)
response = urllib2.urlopen(request)
c = ClientCookie.Cookies()
c.extract_cookies(response,request)
request2 = urllib2.Request("http://comment.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewComments&friendID=anyfriendid")
c.add_cookie_header(request2)
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.

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

my first attempt was out of the docs:

import httplib, urllib
params = urllib.urlencode({'email' : '[e-mail]', 'password' : 'pass'})
h = httplib.HTTP("login.myspace.com:80")
h.putrequest("POST", "/index.cfm?fuseaction=login.process&amp")
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")
h.putheader("Content-length", "%d" % len(params))
h.putheader('Accept', 'text/plain')
 
h.endheaders()
h.send(params)
reply, msg, hdrs = h.getreply()
print reply # should be 200
data = h.getfile().read() # get the raw HTML
print data 

this returned a page denying access
and then tried:

import httplib, urllib
params = urllib.urlencode({'email' : '[e-mail]', 'password' : 'dicksuck'})
data = urllib.urlopen("http://login.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=login.process&amp:80", params).read() 
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.

[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:

import urllib
import urllib2
import ClientCookie
 
params = urllib.urlencode({'email':'youremail','password':'yourpassword'})
request = urllib2.Request("http://login.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=login.process&amp",params)
response = urllib2.urlopen(request)
c = ClientCookie.Cookies()
c.extract_cookies(response,request)
request2 = urllib2.Request("http://comment.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewComments&friendID=anyfriendid")
c.add_cookie_header(request2)
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.

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