[Python] Keeping the session alive

[adjacent]

I am experimenting with capatcha images. I have a capatcha.php in my local host which will generate an image and that image will be put into the form

Here is my python code to get the image, extract the text in it and send them back to the form. And finally save the resulting form as html.
The form has Two fields, Number and Code. And it will return a table of things.
But it's not working. The html saved by python does not have the table. I don't see any problem with the code

import os
import requests

p = requests.session()
q = p.get('[PLAIN]http://localhost/Test/Capatcha.php')[/PLAIN] 
with open('data/a.png', 'wb') as f:
    f.write(q.content)
os.system("tesseract C:\\Users\\Me\\Desktop\\Test\\data\\a.png C:\\Users\\Me\\Desktop\\Test\\data\\a")
with open("data\\a.txt") as cap:
    capData = cap.read()
print("Capatcha line:"+capData)
num = input("Please enter the number :")
payload = {
    'Code': capData,
    'q': num
}

url = "[PLAIN]http://localhost/Test/index.php"[/PLAIN] 
r = p.post(url, data=payload)


with open("data\\log.html", "w") as file:
    log = file.write(r.text)

 

[gsal]

I have not idea what you are talking about; but, is there, by any chance, a missing extension ".txt" in the system call? That might be the reason why your a.txt file does not have what is supposed to?

 

[adjacent]

I have not idea what you are talking about;

Why? Can you tell me what you didn't understand?
I have a folder in my localhost which is called 'Test'. In that folder, I have two php files: Capatcha.php and Index.php. I also have a folder called 'data' in the 'test' folder.
What the capatcha.php does is, start a session and generate a random image with numbers.

The index.php has two input fields one is called 'Code' and other is called 'q'.
What I am trying to do is, download the capatcha image from the capatcha.php and get the text in the capatcha image with an OCR engine(Tesseract).
The code in os.system() will save the resulting text in a text file called data.txt. And I will save that text in a variable called 'capData'
Then the python program will ask for a number which I will enter manually. It will be saved in a variable called 'num'
Then the python program will connect to index.php and enter the values of 'q' which will be the value for 'num' ,and 'Code' which will be the value for 'capData'.
Then If the 'Code' matches the one in the capatcha image, the php file will generate a table containing a name and the number.

My problem is that it does not generate the table and I think the reason is because when the python program connects the index.php, it is not in the capatcha session. It started a new session.

So My question is how to keep the session alive. I don't see any problem in my code above. However, it does not work.

is there, by any chance, a missing extension ".txt" in the system call? That might be the reason why your a.txt file does not have what is supposed to?

'Tesseract' (OCR engine) will automatically save it as a text file.



Here is a php code which does the same thing I am trying to do.

<?php
include("simple_html_dom.php");
$tmp_fname = tempnam("data", "COOKIE");

$header[0] = "Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,";
$header[0] .= "text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5";
$header[] = "Cache-Control: max-age=0";
$header[] = "Connection: keep-alive";
$header[] = "Keep-Alive: 300";
$header[] = "Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7";
$header[] = "Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5";
$header[] = "Pragma: ";

$curl_handle = curl_init("[PLAIN]http://localhost/Test/Capatcha.php");[/PLAIN] 
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0');
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header);
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_REFERER, '[PLAIN]http://localhost/');[/PLAIN] [/PLAIN] 
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $tmp_fname);
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $tmp_fname);
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$output = curl_exec($curl_handle);

file_put_contents("data/a.png", $output);
$path = "C:/xampp/htdocs/edi/";
try
{
   exec($path."Tesseract-OCR/tesseract.exe ".$path."data/a.png ".$path."data/a", $msg);
   $capture = trim(file_get_contents("data/a.txt"));
   echo $capture;
   unlink("data/a.txt");
}
catch (Exception $e)
{
   echo $e;
}

$curl_handle = curl_init("[PLAIN]http://localhost/Test/index.php");[/PLAIN] 
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0');
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header);
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_REFERER, '[PLAIN]http://localhost/');[/PLAIN] [/PLAIN] 
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $tmp_fname);
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, array("captcha"=>$capture, "number"=>$_REQUEST['q'], "submit"=>""));
$output = curl_exec($curl_handle);

[B]$html = str_get_html($output);[/B]

?>

 

[adjacent]

I have solved this by putting everything in a "with requests.session() as s:"

Thanks anyway. :D

 

[LudusRex]

As a scientist, it is important to thoroughly troubleshoot any issues encountered in an experiment. In this case, it seems that the issue may be with the website or form itself, rather than the Python code. I would suggest checking the HTML code of the form to see if the table is present, and also checking the website's backend to ensure that the form is properly set up to display the table. Additionally, it may be helpful to try running the code with a different website or form to see if the issue persists. If the problem persists, further investigation and debugging may be necessary to determine the root cause.