[twill] Can't login to MySpace

[twill.overbored at spamgourmet.com]

This problem is probably much harder than I thought, due to the use of
JavaScript in the intermediate login pages. Anyway, it seems that for
such "heavy-duty" site-crawling, an engine like Gecko is indeed
necessary.

On 8/5/06, I wrote:
> Hi all, I'm writing this simple script to log into MySpace:
>
> go('http://myspace.com/')
> fv('theForm', 'email', 'myname at myhost')
> fv('theForm', 'password', 'mypassword')
> submit()
> code(200)
>
> However, this doesn't work (this can be verified by checking the
> resulting page for the form 'theForm'). I can tell you that
> redirections and cookies are used between the submit() and code()
> calls. However, after spending several hours using Ethereal and trying
> to analyze the differences between the HTTP traffic from twill and
> Firefox, I've given up (having never done packet analysis before, I'm
> extremely inefficient at this). Hopefully someone knows what's
> up....or even better, a workaround! Thanks a ton in advance.
>
> (Since this tool has never been mentioned on this mailing list before,
> I'll mention that I am currently trying to get around this by using
> Chickenfoot, http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/chickenfoot/. But while I
> now have full Firefox power, I think all I really need is correct
> stateful browsing. Also, JavaScript sucks.)
>