So in my example above. How does web2py's admin know I am logged in? Does it do this by accessing a cookie on my computer, if so how does it do that behind the scenes? Could urllib2.urlopen really handle this?
Thanks Peter On Dec 13, 7:27 pm, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tuesday, December 13, 2011 2:09:31 PM UTC-5, peter wrote: > > > def test(): > > import urllib > > url="http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/default/site"; > > f = urllib.urlopen(url) > > s = f.read() > > return s > > > I have to login again even though I am logged in on my computer. So > > the question is, can I somehow add the 'context' to s so that it > > recognises that I am already logged in? > > > I am using web2py's admin as an example, but the solution should work > > for any website. > > Are you saying you want to programmatically login to a website and then > retrieve a particular page that requires a login on that site? Look into > urllib2:http://docs.python.org/howto/urllib2.html. I think it's pretty > easy if the site supports basic authentication, otherwise a little more > complex (requires posting form data and managing cookies). > > Anthony
