[twill] authentication problem

[Tennis Smith]

Grrrr... it turns out the auth process is putting up a separate window with
userid/password fields in it.

Can twill deal w/that?

-T

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 5:20 PM, James Cameron <james.cameron at hp.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 05:16:00PM -0700, Tennis Smith wrote:
> >    Yes, I have to fill in a form.  Can you point me to an example of how
> >    to do that? THanks. :)
>
> Sure.
>
> My internet service provider has a web page to tell me the current
> usage, and it works by prompting in a form, then issuing a cookie that
> is used to validate further requests.
>
> For this I used twill-sh in a shell script as follows:
>
> twill-sh <<EOF >/dev/null 2>/dev/null
> go https://example.com/usage/daily/
> fv Login username quozl
> fv Login password qwertyuiop
> submit
> save_html /var/tmp/usage.html
> EOF
>
> The remains of my script processed the usage.html file to get the byte
> counts.
>
> --
> James Cameron
> http://ftp.hp.com.au/sigs/jc/
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