#6 Automatic web login

[Eric Seidel]

It would be nice to have automatic web login from
the application, as is seen in sputnix 0.6b and
later.

This would require figuring out how to send a post
request via Cocoa. Something which should not
be very difficult.

The form to do so should be deciferable from the
Audiogalaxy website.

[Eric Seidel]

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I looked at this last night and found that this could be
implemented in the current code by just adding the
values:
loginUsername=
loginPassword=
to the end of any current GET request.

Sputnix however seems to use POST to first get you
logged in and then take you to the correct page. That
seems like a slicker way to do it, and therefore I have
refrained from adding this feature to 1.1

Suggestions are always appreciated.

[Jeff Connelly]

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Hi there. Here's some login code (in Perl, though easily
translatable to C I suppose) I wrote for the Unweb project.
I used the GET method. POST

sub login
{
my ($login, $passwd) = @_;
my ($request, $response, $cookie, $content, $sid);

# $SERVER/?loginUsername=...&loginPassword=...

$request = HTTP::Request->new('GET',
"$SERVER/?loginUsername=$login&loginPassword=$passwd");
$response = $ua->request($request);
$cookie = $response->header("Set-Cookie");
$content = $response->content;

open(LOG,">out.html")||die;print LOG $content;close
(LOG);
if ($content !~ m/welcome <span
class=username>$login/ # Gold
and$content !~ m/$login<\/span> home/) #
Regular
{
die "login failure $login, see out.html for
details";
}
($sid) = $cookie =~ m/SID=([^;]+)/;
return "SID=$sid; cookieUsername=$login;
cookiePassword=$passwd";
}

Once you have the cookie, simply send it with all requests
for other site functions. So far I implemented:
- Login via /
- Searching via /list/searches.php
- Song title via /list/song.php
- Version selection via /list/chooseVersion.php
- Queuing via /list/chooseVersion.php
- Song sending via via /groups/sendSongToMembers.php
- Multiple song sending
- Note reading via /user/allNotes.php
- Post reading via /pages/thread.php?t=$tid
If you're interested, I can provide you with the code. Very
useful for automating certain functions, and perhaps for
providing an alternative to using a web browser.