Comments on: Which makes it look like a bothering sort of day

By: Thomas Thurman

Thomas Thurman — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:16:37 +0000

@Claudio:

I think we’re talking at cross-purposes here. I wanted a means to read a page using existing cookies to save time, but you seem to be suggesting logging in and then using THOSE cookies, which I can do in Python already. Thanks, though.

By: Claudio

Claudio — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:50:53 +0000

Thomas,

It will perform its own login with its own cookies. No need to read the firefox config/db…

Anyway, if you want it to integrate in an already python script, I am sure Python has a similar module (ruby and java have…).

By: Thomas Thurman

Thomas Thurman — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:12:15 +0000

@alex:
Oh, nice one. Thanks.

@Claudio:
I knew about Mech but the existing script’s in Python and I didn’t want to do a complete rewrite. Besides, cookie_jar doesn’t know how to read sqlite either, does it?

@Dave Miller:
I like that idea– thanks. I’m pretty sure our bugzilla isn’t new enough to use the XMLRPC, but the submit script might be helpful.

By: Dave Miller

Dave Miller — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:50:56 +0000

Judging by the script you linked to, you’re using python? Why not just have python do the login? If you grab a copy of Bugzilla from http://www.bugzilla.org, there’s a “bugzilla-submit” script in the contrib directory which is written in python, and should be enough sample code for you to figure out how to log in and do basic stuff to Bugzilla. There’s also an XMLRPC API on newer versions of Bugzilla that you can use to, for example, grab just the list of attachments off a bug without having to download the entire bug.

By: Claudio

Claudio — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:37:52 +0000

What about the Perl module WWW: Mechanize (http://search.cpan.org/dist/WWW-Mechanize/lib/WWW/Mechanize.pm). It does *exactly* what you ask (check cookie_jar).

Regards,

By: alex

alex — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:33:06 +0000

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