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Alex
Alex

Reputation: 531

Get sessionId using request Python

I'm trying to get the sessionId, so i can do other requests.
So i looked in the Firefox Network monitor (Ctrl+Shift+Q) and saw this:

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So i wondered how i could do the request in python 3 and tried things like this: 

import requests
payload = {'uid' : 'username',
      'pwd' : 'password'}

r = requests.get(r'http://192.168.2.114(cgi-bin/wwwugw.cgi', data=payload)

print r.text

But I always get "Response [400]".
If the request is correct, I should get something like this:

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Thanks
Alex

Upvotes: 2

Views: 26925

Answers (3)

A.Ktns
A.Ktns

Reputation: 653

if you want to get the Session ID you can use Session() from the requests library:

URL = "Some URL here"

client = requests.Session()
client.get(URL)
client.cookies['sessionid']

Upvotes: 2

ChaChaPoly
ChaChaPoly

Reputation: 1851

Just use a session, which will handle redirects and cookies for you:

import requests
payload = {'uid' : 'username',
          'pwd' : 'password'}

with requests.Session() as session:
    r = session.post(r'http://192.168.2.114(cgi-bin/wwwugw.cgi', data=payload)

    print(r.json)

This way you don't explicitly need to get the sessionId, but if you still want to, you can access the returned JSON as a dictionary.

Upvotes: 3

hspandher
hspandher

Reputation: 16753

Although it's not very clear from your question, but I've noticed few issues with what you are trying to accomplish.

  1. If you are using session authentication, then you are suppose the send session_id as a Cookie header, which you aren't doing.

  2. 400 response code means bad request, not authentication required. Why are you sending data in get request to begin with? There's a difference between data and query params.

Upvotes: 1

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