Automatic insertion of user name and password.

[atfqn]

I am trying to find a way to use python to insert a username and password into a couple of web sites. One is encoded in html and the other in php. All it has to do is insert the data into two fields and force a button to submit. The data is not dynamic and can be coded into the program.

Up to now I have been running a macro on my 2k3 ent box. Now I wish to do it in linux as I am playing with smoothwall.

I have checked google as well as posted elsewhere with no response/answers that worked. I am new to programming in python but I have spent alot of time with c++.

Thanks guys.

 

[rzs0502]

Perhaps you could use pyexpect ?


"If you always do what you've always done, you will always be where you've always been."

 

[clarkclark]

i do a similar thing, but manually.
since you're using linux, you likely have /usr/bin/expect avalable.

s="""
#!/usr/bin/expect
spawn telnet myServer
expect "Password:"
send "myPassword\r"
expect eof
"""

h=open("tmp.exp")
h.write(s)
h.close()
os.popen("chmod +x tmp.exp; tmp.exp")

##this code hasn't been subjected to QA