Symfony and mechanize

Question

I am trying to access to a local website designed with the Symfony framework. It works perfectly with the web browser and with CURL but when I use Mechanize I always got the 401 unauthorized answer for the server.

import mechanize


# Browser
br = mechanize.Browser()
br.set_debug_http(True)
br.set_debug_redirects(True)
br.set_debug_responses(True)

# Does not change anything even if we change thos
br.addheaders = [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008071615 Fedora/3.0.1-1.fc9 Firefox/3.0.1')]

# Here is my website
r = br.open('http://localhost:8080/frontend_dev.php/home')
html = r.read()

# Show the html source 
print html

Do you have any idea why it behaves like this?

Thanks

Is Symfony hit or not? What happens it you write die("hit"); on top of the frontend_dev.php file? — greg0ire, Nov 27 '11 at 15:01

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 28 '11 at 06:18

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I finally found the answer by myself. There is a bug in the sfDoctrineGuardPlugin (and sfGuardPlugin) that causes this behavior as stated here. I applied the patch and the problem is solved.

answered Nov 28 '11 at 06:18

lc2817

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It's an old bug, I think you must have an old version of the plugin. Consider updating. – greg0ire Nov 28 '11 at 08:49
The bug has been corrected in august this year. And the last release of sfDoctrineGuard has been done is 2010. I don't think that you are right. What do you suggest: http://www.symfony-project.org/plugins/sfDoctrineGuardPlugin – lc2817 Nov 28 '11 at 19:58
I suggest to use Symfony2 Seriously, I don't know why the last release is so old... perhaps jwage is too busy with doctrine2 / sf2 ... – greg0ire Nov 28 '11 at 20:06

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 22 '11 at 10:28

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there are tight controls on who can access the development environment in symfony. Try using the main URL (probably http://localhost:8080/index.php/home)

answered Nov 22 '11 at 10:28

MrGlass

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It didn't solved the issue. I just tried it and got the same error – lc2817 Nov 22 '11 at 16:15
Sorry. I assume you cleared your cache? Do you have any credentials or anything required? – MrGlass Nov 22 '11 at 16:26
For the cache: yes. I don't have any credential needed for the home page, for some pages afterwards yes. And it works perfectly with curl, I don't know why... – lc2817 Nov 22 '11 at 16:29
Thank you for helping anyway. It doesn't change anything whetherthe app is in production or not. – lc2817 Nov 22 '11 at 16:35

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 25 '11 at 17:05

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Can you refer some valid address to try your code? I guess that you missed some settings, try to disable robots.

br.set_handle_robots(False)

answered Nov 25 '11 at 17:05

Tiago Maluta

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I tried this and it didn't change anything. No I can't provide a valid address to try my code right no (sorry maybe later). – lc2817 Nov 26 '11 at 06:21

score 1 · Answer 4 · edited Dec 16 '13 at 06:41

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I don't know anything about Symfony framework, but as you are getting 'Error : 401 ' . Adding these lines might work .

br.add_password('http://localhost:8080/frontend_dev.php/home', 'username', 'password')
br.open('http://localhost:8080/frontend_dev.php/home')

edited Dec 16 '13 at 06:41

Code Lღver

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answered Nov 25 '11 at 20:45

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score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Dec 02 '11 at 07:31

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please see http://trac.symfony-project.org/ticket/4474

answered Dec 02 '11 at 07:31

Tao Song

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