How to use Python to login to a webpage and retrieve cookies for later usage?

Here’s a version using the excellent requests library: from requests import session payload = { ‘action’: ‘login’, ‘username’: USERNAME, ‘password’: PASSWORD } with session() as c: c.post(‘http://example.com/login.php’, data=payload) response = c.get(‘http://example.com/protected_page.php’) print(response.headers) print(response.text)

How to handle authentication popup with Selenium WebDriver using Java

The Alert Method, authenticateUsing() lets you skip the Http Basic Authentication box. WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 10); Alert alert = wait.until(ExpectedConditions.alertIsPresent()); alert.authenticateUsing(new UserAndPassword(username, password)); As of Selenium 3.4 it is still in beta Right now implementation is only done for InternetExplorerDriver

Set cookies for cross origin requests

Cross site approach To allow receiving & sending cookies by a CORS request successfully, do the following. Back-end (server): Set the HTTP header Access-Control-Allow-Credentials value to true. Also, make sure the HTTP headers Access-Control-Allow-Origin and Access-Control-Allow-Headers are set and not with a wildcard *. For more info on setting CORS in express js read the … Read more

How to implement REST token-based authentication with JAX-RS and Jersey

How token-based authentication works In token-based authentication, the client exchanges hard credentials (such as username and password) for a piece of data called token. For each request, instead of sending the hard credentials, the client will send the token to the server to perform authentication and then authorization. In a few words, an authentication scheme … Read more