Python authenticate and launch private page using webbrowser, urllib and CookieJar
I want to login with cookiejar and and launch not the login page but a page that can only be seen after authenticated. I know mechanize does that but besides not working for me now, I rather do this without it. Now I have, import urllib, urllib2, cookielib, webbrowser from cookielib import CookieJar username = 'my_username' password = 'my_password' url = 'my_login_page' cj = cookielib.CookieJar() opener = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor(cj)) login_data = urllib.urlencode({'my_username' : username, 'my_password' : password}) opener.open(url, login_data) page_to_launch = 'my