From: brabuhr@...
Date: 2010-08-04T06:24:17+09:00
Subject: Re: HTTPClient can't login to Google Voice

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Mike Telis <mtelis@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to login to Google Voice using the following code:
>...
> PRE_LOGIN_URL   = "https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin"
> LOGIN_URL       = "https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLoginAuth"
> VOICE_HOME_URL  = "https://www.google.com/voice"
>...
> resp = clnt.post_content  LOGIN_URL,
>                  :service  => 'grandcentral',
>                  :continue => 'https://www.google.com/voice',
>                  :Email    => Google_Login,
>                  :Passwd   => Google_Password,
>                  :GALX     => @galx

http://everydayscripting.blogspot.com/2009/10/python-fixes-to-google-login-script.html

login_params = urllib.urlencode( {
   'Email' : email,
   'Passwd' : password,
   'continue' : 'https://www.google.com/voice/account/signin',
   'GALX': galx_value
})

Slightly different parameters?

> and post_content ends up redirecting to non-https URL (which is
> definitely wrong). BTW, I believe that post_content should change method
> to :get on redirect.

I noticed that this redirect only happened when a valid username and
password was entered.  I hacked my copy of httpclient to not raise the
exception so I could take a look at what was being returned:

"If you've been redirected to this page from the sign-in box, we've
detected an error with your cookie settings. Please follow the
instructions for your browser listed below. After clearing your cache
and cookies, try signing in again."