From: Shawn Anderson <shawn42@...>
Date: 2008-04-04T09:53:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Seeking some guidance with net/http

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You may want to check out:
http://youtube-g.rubyforge.org/

at least see how they manage the authentication aspect.

/Shawn

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 5:48 PM, Andrew Cowan <icculus@gmdstudios.com> wrote:

> Heya, I am attempting to write a script that lets me login to my Youtube
> account to gather frequent data for the videos I have uploaded, I am
> stumbling over the Youtube login procedure which seems to involve both
> cookies and session info. I am able to get this login procedure to work with
> Perl and LWP::UserAgent but so far using net/http and Ruby I am failing.
>
> Here is the code I have been playing with which involves first a POST form
> submission to youtube's /login script, then the code to follow the
> redirection back to the /index page -- but looking at the contents returned
> from /index it appears youtube doesn't recognize me as being logged in:
>
> ---
>
> # Note: I have added a bunch of puts statements to help debug, leaving
> them here for this post
> require 'net/http'
>
> http = Net::HTTP.new( 'www.youtube.com', 80 )
> path = '/login'
> agent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1)
> Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1'
>
> data =
> 'nexturl=/&current_form=loginForm&action_login=Log+In&username=MY_USER&password=MY_PWD'
>
> headers = {
>  'Referer' => 'http://www.youtube.com/',
>  'Content-Type' => 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
>  'User-Agent' => agent
> }
>
> resp, data = http.post( path, data, headers )
> cookie = resp.response['set-cookie']
>
> if ( resp.code =~ /^3/ )
>  puts "Got Redirect: " + resp['location']
> end
>
> next_loc = resp['location']
>
> puts 'Logging In to Set Cookies:'
> puts 'Code=' + resp.code
> puts 'Mesg=' + resp.message
> puts 'Cookie=' + cookie
> puts 'Next Location=' + next_loc
> puts 'Data=' + data
>
>
> headers = {
>  'Cookie' => cookie,
>  'User-Agent' => agent
> }
>
> resp, data = http.get( next_loc, headers )
>
> puts '(should be) Logged In:'
> puts 'Code=' + resp.code
> puts 'Mesg=' + resp.message
> puts 'Data=' + data
>
> ---
>
> I am unsure what part I am missing which youtube apparently needs to
> complete its login procedure, I would greatly appreciate any helpful
> suggestions!
>
> Thanks,
> Andy
>
>

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