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#!/usr/bin/python2
# Copyright 2009 Nick White
#
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# See <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/> for a copy of the GNU General
# Public License.

import urllib2
from cookielib import CookieJar
from urllib import urlencode
from optparse import OptionParser
from os import getenv

# defaults
username = ''
password = ''
filename = 'lwn.html'
login_url = 'https://lwn.net/login'
bigpage_url = 'https://lwn.net/current/bigpage?format=printable'

# parse arguments
parser = OptionParser()
parser.add_option("-u", "--user", dest="username", default=username,
					help="lwn username")
parser.add_option("-p", "--pass", dest="password", default=password,
					help="lwn password")
parser.add_option("-f", "--file", dest="filename", default=filename,
					help="name of file to save to", metavar="FILE")
parser.add_option("-d", "--direct", dest="direct", default=False,
					help="connect directly, bypassing any proxies",
					action="store_true")
(options, args) = parser.parse_args()

# set up cookiejar to use
credentials=urlencode({'Username': options.username, 'Password': options.password})
cookiejar = CookieJar()
cookie_handler = urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor(cookiejar)

# set up proxy
proxyaddr = getenv('HTTP_PROXY')
if options.direct == True or not proxyaddr:
	opener = urllib2.build_opener(cookie_handler)
else:
	proxy_handler = urllib2.ProxyHandler({'http': proxyaddr, 'https': proxyaddr})
	opener = urllib2.build_opener(proxy_handler, cookie_handler)

# login, then retrieve page
opener.open(login_url, credentials)
f = opener.open(bigpage_url)

# save to a file
savefile = open(options.filename, 'w')
savefile.write(f.read())
savefile.close