HTTPClient can't login to Google Voice

[Mike Telis]

I'm trying to login to Google Voice using the following code:


require 'httpclient'

Google_Login = 'googlename'
Google_Password = 'password'

PRE_LOGIN_URL = "https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin"
LOGIN_URL = "https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLoginAuth"
VOICE_HOME_URL = "https://www.google.com/voice"

clnt = HTTPClient.newagent_name => "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel
Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2")
#clnt.debug_dev = STDERR

resp = clnt.get PRE_LOGIN_URL

clnt.cookie_manager.cookies.each {|x| @galx=x.value if x.name == 'GALX'}
# fetch GALX

resp = clnt.post_content LOGIN_URL,
:service => 'grandcentral',
:continue => 'https://www.google.com/voice',
:Email => Google_Login,
asswd => Google_Password,
:GALX => @galx

and post_content ends up redirecting to non-https URL (which is
definitely wrong). BTW, I believe that post_content should change method
to :get on redirect.

Any ideas what might be wrong with the code (or library)?

 

[Jason Watson]

I'm trying to login to Google Voice using the following code:


require 'httpclient'

Google_Login = 'googlename'
Google_Password = 'password'

PRE_LOGIN_URL = "https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin"
LOGIN_URL = "https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLoginAuth"
VOICE_HOME_URL = "https://www.google.com/voice"

clnt = HTTPClient.newagent_name => "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel
Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2")
#clnt.debug_dev = STDERR

resp = clnt.get PRE_LOGIN_URL

clnt.cookie_manager.cookies.each {|x| @galx=x.value if x.name == 'GALX'}
# fetch GALX

resp = clnt.post_content LOGIN_URL,
:service => 'grandcentral',
:continue => 'https://www.google.com/voice',
:Email => Google_Login,
asswd => Google_Password,
:GALX => @galx

and post_content ends up redirecting to non-https URL (which is
definitely wrong). BTW, I believe that post_content should change method
to :get on redirect.

Any ideas what might be wrong with the code (or library)?

I could log in to Google with this:

require 'net/https'

def auth user_email, passwd, account_type, service
http = Net::HTTP.new("www.google.com", 443)
http.use_ssl = true

path = "/accounts/ClientLogin"
data =
"accountType=#{account_type}&Email=#{user_email}&Passwd=#{passwd}&service=#{service}"


headers = {'Content-Type' => 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'}

resp, data = http.post(path, data, headers)

puts resp.code
puts resp.body

cl_string = data[/Auth=(.*)/,1]
headers["Authorization"] = "GoogleLogin auth=#{cl_string}"

end

auth "email", "pass", "GOOGLE", "grandcentral"

jbw

 

[Mike Telis]

I could log in to Google with this:

Guess it was long time ago, before Google added that GALX thing...

http.use_ssl = true

http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE # added this line

I tried this code and it didn't work:

403
Error=BadAuthentication

Any other ideas?

 

[Jason Watson]

[Note: parts of this message were removed to make it a legal post.]

Guess it was long time ago, before Google added that GALX thing...

http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE # added this line

I tried this code and it didn't work:

What does the code look like now? Added that line to mine and ir still works.

403
Error=BadAuthentication

Any other ideas?

I've not used httpclient before or google's API much so I don't know
about GALX. I've used HTTParty for this sort of stuff though.

 

[Mike Telis]

I've not used httpclient before or google's API much so I don't know

about GALX. I've used HTTParty for this sort of stuff though.

Thanks for the tip! I've tried net/http, RestClient and HTTPClient and
all failed in a similar manner. I think I'm doing something wrong and
I'd rather find out what it is than try yet another library.

 

[Jason Watson]

Thanks for the tip! I've tried net/http, RestClient and HTTPClient and
all failed in a similar manner. I think I'm doing something wrong and
I'd rather find out what it is than try yet another library.

I don't think the API for this is even released offically? But there is
lots of documented examples on Google's website for other API services,
maybe they'll help.

 

[brabuhr]

I'm trying to login to Google Voice using the following code:
...
PRE_LOGIN_URL =A0 =3D "https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin"
LOGIN_URL =A0 =A0 =A0 =3D "https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLoginAu= th"
VOICE_HOME_URL =A0=3D "https://www.google.com/voice"
...
resp =3D clnt.post_content =A0LOGIN_URL,
=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0:service =A0=3D> 'grandcentral',
=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0:continue =3D> 'https://www.google.com= /voice',
=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0:Email =A0 =A0=3D> Google_Login,
=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0asswd =A0 =3D> Google_Password,
=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0:GALX =A0 =A0 =3D> @galx

http://everydayscripting.blogspot.com/2009/10/python-fixes-to-google-login-=
script.html

login_params =3D urllib.urlencode( {
'Email' : email,
'Passwd' : password,
'continue' : 'https://www.google.com/voice/account/signin',
'GALX': galx_value
})

Slightly different parameters?

and post_content ends up redirecting to non-https URL (which is
definitely wrong). BTW, I believe that post_content should change method
to :get on redirect.

I noticed that this redirect only happened when a valid username and
password was entered. I hacked my copy of httpclient to not raise the
exception so I could take a look at what was being returned:

"If you've been redirected to this page from the sign-in box, we've
detected an error with your cookie settings. Please follow the
instructions for your browser listed below. After clearing your cache
and cookies, try signing in again."

 

[Mike Telis]

http://everydayscripting.blogspot.com/2009/10/python-fixes-to-google-login-script.html

login_params = urllib.urlencode( {
'Email' : email,
'Passwd' : password,
'continue' : 'https://www.google.com/voice/account/signin',
'GALX': galx_value
})

Slightly different parameters?

Unfortunately, this doesn't work :-( I changed parameters as you
suggested and got the same result. I've checked email and password many
times, they are correct.

 

[Mike Telis]

Bump. Anyone?

 

[Mike Telis]

I'm redirected to:

http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?answer=32050&hl=en&ctx=ch_CheckCookie"

and the CheckCookie part hints that HTTPClient is doing something wrong
with the cookies.