Re: Using MyProfile from the command line?

On 10 July 2012 11:53, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 7 July 2012 16:43, Andrei Sambra <andrei@fcns.eu> wrote:
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>> Hi Melvin,
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>> On 07/07/12 14:44, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
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>>> Has anyone been able to make a wall post from the command line?  I tried
>>> the following unsuccessfully :
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>>> echo "user=local&new=1&comment=**curltest"  | curl -X POST -E
>>> e.pemhttps://my-profile.eu/**wall.php <http://my-profile.eu/wall.php>
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>>> Any ideas?
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>>>  I don't think you'll be able to do that, since posting on the wall
>> requires the user to be authenticated through a session. Therefore, your
>> script would first have to authenticate (same link as the WebID button) and
>> save the session cookie, and only then post the message.
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> I've slightly modified the python script you gave me to get this to work:
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> #!/usr/bin/env python
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> import urllib
> import httplib2
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> cert_file = 'e.pem'
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> http = httplib2.Http(disable_ssl_certificate_validation=True)
> http.add_certificate('', cert_file, domain='')
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> url = '
> https://auth.my-profile.eu/auth/index.php?authreqissuer=https://my-profile.eu/index.php
> '
> response, content = http.request(url)
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> headers = {'Cookie': response['set-cookie'], 'Content-type':
> 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'}
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> newurl = 'https://my-profile.eu/wall.php'
> body = { 'comment' : 'curltest', 'user' : 'local', 'new' : '1' }
> response, content = http.request(newurl, 'POST', headers=headers,
> body=urllib.urlencode(body))
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> https://gist.github.com/3082339
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Note also if you change 'user' : 'local' to your wall's id, it will post to
your personal stream, rather than the global one.

You can find your wall id by going to 'subscription'


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