[TriLUG] python, requests and logging into a web page

[Greg Brown]

All:

I'm trying to use Python to test availability of an external web
application and I'm getting stuck.  My credentials are working because I
can use the same to log in via a webpage.  However when I try to log in via
the python script I see to get stopped at a proxy that lies between the
front page of the application and the application itself.  I tried to use
cookies via sessions but that didn't seem to do the trick.  Here is the
code, fairly redacted because I can't send out my username and password
obviously.  From a basic structure standpoint can you see anything
obviously wrong?

Many Thanks!

Greg

import requests

build a session for the cookies
# create a session
session = requests.Session()
session.get('*url_of_cookie_webpage*')


# Fill in your details here to be posted to the login form.
payload = {
    'inUserName': 'myusername',
    'inUserPass': 'myPassword'
}

r = session.post('*url_I'm-trying-to-go*', params=payload,
allow_redirects=True)

print r.status_code
print r.text