CODEWITHSUNDEEP
pythonurllib2urllib
snagcheol
snagcheol

Reputation: 61

urllib2 javascript redirect issue

import urllib2,urllib

data = urllib.urlencode({"username" : "usr", "password" : "pass", "lang" : "eng", "usertype" : "cashier", "submit" : "Enter"})
req = urllib2.Request("https://website/index.php", data)
opener = urllib2.build_opener()
response = opener.open(req)
the_page = response.read()
print the_page

OUTPUT:

<script type="text/javascript">window.location.href = "/h383/list.php";</script>

So I want to reach list.php any suggestions?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1498

Answers (1)

cdhowie
cdhowie

Reputation: 169123

First, try delivering a stern lecture to the webmaster about graceful degradation and web standards.

If that fails, then you ultimately have two options:

  1. Extract the redirection location using a regular expression. (Pro: This is easy. Cons: This won't work if the redirection URL is built using JavaScript, as opposed to showing up as a single string literal. Additionally, minute changes in the script -- even the addition of whitespace -- are likely to break your expression.)
  2. Run the script through a JavaScript runtime, providing window and window.location objects, and catching the assignment to its href property. (Pros: This will allow for JS-built URLs to work, and is fairly future-proof. Cons: This is probably over-engineering, and won't be a simple task.)

Upvotes: 2

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