Comments on: Automatic site login using Python urllib2

By: rahul

rahul — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:26:25 +0000

hello all..

im doing research project on openid in python.can u tell me what should i do for automaticallt redirect my openid url to openid server and check authentication itself and send beck to me confirmation of success in login.

do u have any logic behind it….share wid me…

By: jon

jon — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:06:29 +0000

urllib2 is okay for scraping but for site logins and stuff, it sucks because it cannot handle basic redirects either automatically or using redirect_handler. You’re better off using pycurl.

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:42:16 +0000

Thanks for the clue!

One remark:
‘username’ and ‘password’ keys should be provided, instead of ‘user’ and ‘pass’ in #6 line of the snippet above (at least in django 1.0.2 generic login handler)

By: Nizam

Nizam — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:27:44 +0000

Thanks Adam. I have corrected the snippet. I was kind of in a hurry when I posted this so I totally missed this one! :)

By: Adam Crymble

Adam Crymble — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 20:46:18 +0000

“pass” creates a syntax error since “pass” is used for something else in python