[twill] Help Please - How to use Twill to access Secure Website with Apache login window

[Pham, Hien]

Hello Everyone,

 

I am a new to Twill.  I have been using Python to automate most of my
testing tasks in the last 4-5 years.  My current project is to develop a
tool to login to a local secure website, which use apache to
authenticate accessing user.  I Google the web and fumble on this
"Testing Web Apps Effectively with Twill".  After reading the article
and others related posts, I believe this is the perfect tool for my
project.  I just want to login to the website, navigate to some selected
links, fill and submit some forms and retrieve the response for my
posts.

 

I have written a simple script to login a secure website which use a
"Login" form and it work perfectly.  Until I try to go to the website
that uses Apache for the authentication step - just popup window and no
form to fill.  I can use URLILB2 to loggin, but I have not been figure
out how to gain access to this website using the Twill for its wonderful
built in feature.

 

Below is the code I use to login using URLLIB2:

 

        handler = urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler()

        handler.add_password(self.realm, domain, userId, password)

        

        opener = urllib2.build_opener(handler)

        urllib2.install_opener(opener)

        

        httpPage = urllib2.urlopen(url)

 

Any idea / suggestion would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thank you very much in advance for your help,

 

H. Pham

 

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