Re: how to write our own handler to handle login in cherryPY

You shouldn't have to "mechanize" to post your credentials. You should just
be able to httplib2.post(), unless there's some sort of captcha system.

You need to capture the session cookie that returns though, and use that on
all subsequent requests.

On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 7:49 AM Michiel Overtoom <motoom-qWit8jRvyhVmR6Xm/[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Dharmendra,
>
> > On 2016-04-26, at 13:06, Dharmendra Shaw <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > For authentication we are using "tools.session_auth"
> > I have a need to support login to app using REST API
>
> I have a similar setup.
>
> To have an external script log in as if it were a real user using a
> webbrowser, I use 'mechanize':
>
>     import mechanize
>     br = mechanize.Browser()
>     response = br.open("http://www.myserver.com/login")
>     br.form = list(br.forms())[0]
>     control = br.form.find_control("username")
>     control.value = "MY_NAME"
>     control = br.form.find_control("password")
>     control.value = "MY_SECRET_PASSWORD"
>     response = br.submit()
>
> ...and after that I can request pages:
>
>     response = br.open("http://www.myserver.com/api/item?id=12", "")
>     body = response.read()
>     response.close()
>     j = json.loads(body)
>
> I'm not sure if this is anything like you need, but maybe you get some
> ideas from it.
>
> Greetings,
>
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