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Feyo

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Oct 10, 2009, 9:39:25 PM10/10/09
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How can I use Python to complete web form fields automatically? My
work web-based email time-out is like 15 seconds. Every time I need to
access my calendar, address book, or email, I have to type in my
username and password. I'm just tired of it.

I found the ClientForm module and have been working with it. Can do
what I want in a unit testing sense to have responses sent and
returned, but what I want to do is much simpler. Any ideas? Thanks.

ryles

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Oct 11, 2009, 5:11:41 AM10/11/09
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See this recent thread for ideas:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/58b7513596ab648c

However, why not take a more direct approach? Speak to management and
see if your company can correct this. It's obviously hindering
productivity, and that's something they may have overlooked. There
should be a more reasonable compromise between efficiency and
security. It's worth a shot.

Diez B. Roggisch

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Oct 11, 2009, 9:07:26 AM10/11/09
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Feyo schrieb:

1) hit your sysadmin with a cluestick

2) in case of failure of 1), install greasemonkey to make some
nonsense-action on the page every few seconds.

Diez

Rene Katkowski

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Oct 12, 2009, 9:03:09 PM10/12/09
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On Oct 11, 5:11 am, ryles <ryle...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Oct 10, 9:39 pm, Feyo <dkatkow...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > How can I use Python to complete web form fields automatically? My
> > work web-based email time-out is like 15 seconds. Every time I need to
> > access my calendar, address book, or email, I have to type in my
> > username and password. I'm just tired of it.
>
> > I found theClientFormmodule and have been working with it. Can do

> > what I want in a unit testing sense to have responses sent and
> > returned, but what I want to do is much simpler. Any ideas? Thanks.
>
> See this recent thread for ideas:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/...

>
> However, why not take a more direct approach? Speak to management and
> see if your company can correct this. It's obviously hindering
> productivity, and that's something they may have overlooked. There
> should be a more reasonable compromise between efficiency and
> security. It's worth a shot.

Thanks for the advice. Will give it a shot.

Rene Katkowski

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Oct 12, 2009, 9:03:45 PM10/12/09
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On Oct 11, 9:07 am, "Diez B. Roggisch" <de...@nospam.web.de> wrote:
> Feyo schrieb:
>
> > How can I use Python to complete web form fields automatically? My
> > work web-based email time-out is like 15 seconds. Every time I need to
> > access my calendar, address book, or email, I have to type in my
> > username and password. I'm just tired of it.
>
> > I found theClientFormmodule and have been working with it. Can do

> > what I want in a unit testing sense to have responses sent and
> > returned, but what I want to do is much simpler. Any ideas? Thanks.
>
>   1) hit your sysadmin with a cluestick
>
>   2) in case of failure of 1), install greasemonkey to make some
> nonsense-action on the page every few seconds.
>
> Diez

Thanks, I'll take a look at greasemonkey. Never used it before.

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