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Vort3x
Vort3x

Reputation: 1828

Python urlib and authentication

I need help authenticating logging into this site using urllib. I am using python 3, but I'm willing to revert to 2.x. This is what I have sofar (basically from the documentation), it gives not errors, but its not logging in.

file =open("loggedinsource.html",'wb')

# Create an OpenerDirector with support for Basic HTTP Authentication...
auth_handler = urllib.request.HTTPBasicAuthHandler()
auth_handler.add_password(realm='kalahari.net',uri='https://www.kalahari.net/profile/pipeline/signin.aspx?',user='myuser',passwd='mypass')

opener = urllib.request.build_opener(auth_handler)

# ...and install it globally so it can be used with urlopen.
urllib.request.install_opener(opener)
f=urllib.request.urlopen('https://www.kalahari.net/profile/pipeline/signin.aspx?')

page=f.read()
file.write(page);
file.close()

I have been struggling with this for ages, any help please.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 379

Answers (1)

Marc Abramowitz
Marc Abramowitz

Reputation: 3597

The site you are trying to log into is not using HTTP basic auth; it is using a regular HTML form.

If you want to log into something like this, you probably want to look at something like mechanize

Upvotes: 1

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