Using post to test user login

Attached are two files:

bb-siteminder.sh is an example script to demonstrate how to login

formextract.pl is a slightly modified copy of Daniel Stenberg's formfind.pl,
which can be found here:

   http://curl.haxx.se/docs/programs.html

I'm not a perl programmer, so any screwups in formextract are mine, not
Daniel's... :)

It's doubtful that the example script will work out of the box.  I've found
that I generally have to take it in easy stages - fetch the first page,
eyeball it, adjust the script, lather, rinse, repeat.

Ralph Mitchell


On 6/22/06, Ralph Mitchell <user-00a5e44c48c0@xymon.invalid> wrote:

OK, I'll see about working up a relatively generic script tonight.  As I
recall it works something like:

   curl -s -S -L -o home.html http://somesite.domain.com
   FORM=`cat home.html | formextract.pl | sed -e 'some stuff'`
   curl -s -S -L -o page.html $FORM

That's *very* simplistic, though.  'formextract.pl' is a hack on '
formfind.pl' which comes with curl.  It extracts form variables from a
page and returns a string suitable for passing back to curl.  The 'sed' part
is usually a bunch of substitutions to insert the userid and password.

Ralph Mitchell


On 6/22/06, PAUL WILLIAMSON <user-b9fa55f5c833@xymon.invalid> wrote:

I'm interested in this as well, as we use siteminder too!

Paul

user-518eb92a87d3@xymon.invalid 06/22/06 9:41 AM >>>

            Thanks Ralph and Larry - if either of you can share an
example script that would be great.  We are using Siteminder for our
SSO
here so it sounds like it may be easy to steal, er, borrow, what you
have to get it working.