Allow easy generation of Launchpad cookie file

[Daniel Hahler]

There should be an easy way to setup the cookie file, especially since Firefox 3 now stores them in a SQLite database.

I've found an easy way on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SponsorshipProcess/ppaput:
 curl -b ~/.lpcookie -c ~/.lpcookie -d loginpage_email=LAUNCHPAD_EMAIL -d loginpage_password=LAUNCHPAD_PASSWORD -d loginpage_submit_login=1 https://edge.launchpad.net/+login
(NOTE: this makes the password visible in the process list and shell history! You can remove it from the latter though, e.g. ~/.bash_history)

bughelper could add an option (--gen-cookie), which would emulate the above command, asking the user for his launchpad email and password, then posting those to the LP +login page and creating a cookie file based on the Cookie header received from LP.

[Markus Korn (thekorn)]

hi,
as python-launchpad-bugs allows authentication via password/login it is only 3.5 line fix to implement this for bugnumbers/bughelper.
I propose this two ways of authentification:

$bughelper --cookie=COOKIE
or
$bughelper --password=PASSWORD --login=LP-EMAIL

some for bugnumbers.
This way we won't generate an extra cookiefile and, of cource, would avoid depending on curl.

Daniel, does this make sense for you?
If so, I can fix it tomorrow

Markus

[Markus Korn (thekorn)]

This patch against bughelper.main rev209 adds the in comment #1 proposed options to bughelper/ bugnumbers/ buginfo.

needs some review.

Markus

[Markus Korn (thekorn)]

I deleted my last patch, because this solution (having '--password' and '--login' as cmd-line options) is not related to the primary bugreport

Markus