Issue with Harper's recipe

[kiklop74]

recently login support for Harpers full recipe stopped working. After looking at the site and the code I'm still not sure what it is that is wrong.

I used this to login as a latest version but no luck.

    def get_browser(self):
        br = BasicNewsRecipe.get_browser(self)
        br.open(self.INDEX)
        if self.username is not None and self.password is not None:
            br.addheaders.append(('X-Requested-With', 'XMLHttpRequest'))
            tt = str(int(time.time() * 1000))
            data = urllib.urlencode({ 'm':self.username
                                     ,'p':self.password
                                     ,'rt':self.INDEX
                                     ,'tt':tt
                                   })
            br.open(self.LOGIN, data)
        return br

The function validate_cds_login in http://harpers.org/wp-content/themes...s/js/common.js is the one in charge of submitting the login info.

Any ideas what am I missing?

[kovidgoyal]

It might be that the site needs javascript to login. Try using the javascript login functionality, see the hbr recipe for an example.

[kiklop74]

The site does need js login but what calibre offers does not work. I tried it and it time outs.

[kovidgoyal]

You can increase the timeout's, you can also use a full javascript recipe, which uses a headless webkit browser to scrape the site, see the time recipe for example.