mechanize (python) click on a javascript type link

Question

is it possible to have mechanize follow an anchor link that is of type javascript?

I am trying to login into a website in python using mechanize and beautifulsoup.

Answer 1

You may set cookies using cookielib

import mechanize
import cookielib
# add headers to your browser also
browser = mechanize.Browser()
browser.addheaders = [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008071615 Fedora/3.0.1-1.fc9 Firefox/3.0.1')]
cj = cookielib.LWPCookieJar()
browser.set_cookiejar(cj)

I doubt this is even relevant now, but oh well :)