I am trying to authenticate to Docushare with Python 3.4 using requests 2.7. I am relatively new to Python and to the requests module but I've done a lot of reading and am not able to make any more progress. My code doesn't give any errors and I receive a JSESSIONID cookie back from my post request, but I'm not getting the AmberUser authentication cookie. I don't know how to investigate this further to find out what the problem is.
The form of the request comes from http://docushare.xerox.com/en-us/Help/prog/prog5.htm#Authentication
Request:
POST /dscgi/ds.py/Login HTTP/1.1
Host: docushare.xerox.com
Content-Type: text/xml
Content-Length: xxxx<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<authorization><username>msmith</username><password>mysecretstring</password>
</authorization>
My Python / requests code looks like:
import requestsurl = "https://mydocusharesite/dsweb/Login"xml="""<?xml version='1.0' ?>
<authorization>
<username>myusername</username>
<password><![CDATA[mypa$$word]]></password>
<domain>DocuShare</domain>
</authorization>"""headers = {"DocuShare-Version":"5.0", 'Content-Type':'text/xml'}s = requests.Session()
r = s.post(url,data=xml,headers=headers)
print('Status code:', r.status_code)
print('headers:\n', r.headers)
print('request headers:\n',r.request.headers)
c = s.cookies
print('Cookies:\n', c)
The output I get is
Status code: 200
headers:{'set-cookie': 'JSESSIONID=21B7E5E0D83D1F1267371B9FD1B19BBC.tomcat1; Path=/docushare; Secure', 'transfer-encoding': 'chunked', 'connection': 'close', 'content-type': 'text/html;charset=UTF-8', 'cache-control': 'private', 'date': 'Sun, 07 Jun 2015 02:22:59 GMT', 'expires': '-1'}
request headers:{'Connection': 'keep-alive', 'DocuShare-Version': '5.0', 'Accept': '*/*', 'Content-Type': 'text/xml', 'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip, deflate', 'Content-Length': '153', 'User-Agent': 'python-requests/2.7.0 CPython/3.4.3 Darwin/14.3.0'}
Cookies:<RequestsCookieJar[<Cookie JSESSIONID=21B7E5E0D83D1F1267371B9FD1B19BBC.tomcat1 for mydocusharesite>]>