[ale] Opening a webpage with a password?

[Armsby John-G16665]

Perl can do it.  If you are interested, I can send you some examples.

John
 

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Anonymous Coward
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 12:04 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Opening a webpage with a password?

Hi,

--- "Robert L. Harris" <Robert.L.Harris at rdlg.net>
wrote:

>   I'm messing with automating a website login.  I'm trying to connect 
> to a site that requires a Login/Password form when I connect using 
> firefox.
> I tried using
> "http://user@pass:site.com/internalpage.php" but firefox just says 
> that the site doesn't require auth then gives me the original page 
> with a form.  Anyone have a suggestion on how to automate this?  I 
> have to load the page regularly but the main page has too many 
> freaking graphics/flash, etc on it.

It sounds like this is a regular web form with the credentials being sent over as either a GET or a POST request.
If so, you will need to find the value of the action and the method attributes of the form.

Your script needs to make either a GET or a POST request (depending on method) to the url specified in the action attribute (after adjusting for a relative path if any)

If you plan to do this via a browser by typing a URL ... the server side processing element needs to accept a GET request (which is unusual for an auth form
handler)

If you just need some tool to do this .. I have found Microsoft Fiddler very useful to construct custom http packets (only http:// urls. No support for https:// ).
This is a free download.

Hope that helps.






Thanks,
Anonymous Coward


		
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