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Making http posts
by Stephen Nelson-Smith
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I want to make an HTTP POST which will require authentication. This is because we are using a web tool without an API, and we want a programatic way of getting content into the tool. Tech support of the web tool have said we can just make a POST to the http endpoint. >From the below source, it looks like I just post some text to /project/4254/stories, with the ID of addStoryForm. Is the best way to do this just a simple urllib script? What's the best way to find out from the browser exactly what is being posted when I use the web interface? Tcpdump? Or is the a better tool? S. <a id="addStoryHandle" class="handle" href="#" onclick="return false"></a> <div id="addStoryShade" class="shade"> <div class="shadeHeader"> <span id="actionHideAddStories">« Add Story</span> </div> <form id="addStoryForm" method="post" action="/project/4254/stories"> <input type="hidden" name="hangImmediately" value="false"/> <input type="hidden" name="returnView" value="card"/> <div class="shadeSection"> Text <span class="help">(1,024 characters max)</span> <textarea name="text" id="addStoryText" class="required" maxlength="1024"></textarea> </div> <div class="shadeSection"> Details <span class="help">(optional, supports <a href="http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax" target="_blank">Markdown</a>)</span> <textarea name="details" id="addStoryDetails"></textarea> </div> <div class="shadeSection"> Size <span class="help">(optional, 16 characters max)</span> <input type="text" name="size" maxlength="16"/> </div> <div class="shadeSection"> Tags <span class="help">(separate by commas)</span> <input type="text" name="tags"/> </div> <div class="shadeSection"> <button id="addStoryToBacklog" type="button"> <img src="/content/images/icons/add.png"/> Add to Backlog </button> <button id="addStoryToBoard" type="button"> <img src="/content/images/icons/pin.png"/> Hang on Board </button> </div> </form> </div> _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@... To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor |
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Re: Making http posts
by Kent Johnson
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On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 5:06 AM, Stephen Nelson-Smith <sanelson@...> wrote:
> Hello, > > I want to make an HTTP POST which will require authentication. What kind of authentication? Basic auth is easy to use from Python; form-based auth is a bit tricker. > This is because we are using a web tool without an API, and we want a > programatic way of getting content into the tool. Tech support of the > web tool have said we can just make a POST to the http endpoint. > > >From the below source, it looks like I just post some text to > /project/4254/stories, with the ID of addStoryForm. IIRC the form ID is not part of the post. The text has to be formatted as name=value pairs. > Is the best way to do this just a simple urllib script? urllib2. See my writeup here: http://personalpages.tds.net/~kent37/kk/00010.html > What's the best way to find out from the browser exactly what is being > posted when I use the web interface? Tcpdump? Or is the a better > tool? There are Firefox addons for this. It's been a while so I'm not sure which ones but I think either Firebug or Tamper Data will do it. Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@... To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor |
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Re: Making http posts
by Rich Lovely
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2009/11/5 Kent Johnson <kent37@...>:
> On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 5:06 AM, Stephen Nelson-Smith <sanelson@...> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I want to make an HTTP POST which will require authentication. > > What kind of authentication? Basic auth is easy to use from Python; > form-based auth is a bit tricker. > >> This is because we are using a web tool without an API, and we want a >> programatic way of getting content into the tool. Tech support of the >> web tool have said we can just make a POST to the http endpoint. >> >> >From the below source, it looks like I just post some text to >> /project/4254/stories, with the ID of addStoryForm. > > IIRC the form ID is not part of the post. The text has to be formatted > as name=value pairs. > >> Is the best way to do this just a simple urllib script? > > urllib2. See my writeup here: > http://personalpages.tds.net/~kent37/kk/00010.html > >> What's the best way to find out from the browser exactly what is being >> posted when I use the web interface? Tcpdump? Or is the a better >> tool? > > There are Firefox addons for this. It's been a while so I'm not sure > which ones but I think either Firebug or Tamper Data will do it. > > Kent > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@... > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > If you're really stuck, look into mechanize: it links together urllib, beautiful soup and a form handler. To log in to a form, all you need to do is: br = mechanize.Browser() br.open("http://path.to.form.com/form") #br.select_form(...) if it's not the first form on the page - see docs br['name'] = "username" br['password'] = "password" response = br.submit() then response is a beautifulsoup object of the returned page. The browser object also updates to act on the new page as well, and has methods to click on links and so on, exactly as you would in a browser. Basically, if you can do it with a keyboard and your prefered webbrowser, you can do it with mechanize, and a few things beside. (I've bypassed a (copypasta) javascript md5 function on a forum login before now...) -- Rich "Roadie Rich" Lovely There are 10 types of people in the world: those who know binary, those who do not, and those who are off by one. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@... To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor |
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