Reliance Broadband – New Auto Login Script

Posted by 7sins|Linux, Miscellaneous, OS|49 Comments

Yesterday morning when i woke up i saw that my downloads had stalled, my net connection was down.

Being a Reliance Broadnet Unlimited Plan customer, i always used a cURL based script to automate my login and reconnect in case of disconnection.

But yesterday morning the trusty cURL based script also failed. A little probing and i found that Reliance had changed its login page altogether and was using a cookie based authentication.

Lacking time I was not able to probe further.

But today i was lucky to find a new Python based script written by Kunal Dua which worked perfectly fine just like the previous cURL based script.


For ease of reference I am posting the script over here :

#!/usr/bin/env python
# encoding: utf-8
"""
Reliance Login Script v1.0

Created by Kunal Dua on 2009-12-18.

http://www.kunaldua.com/blog/?p=330

This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or
modify it under the same terms as Python itself.
"""

import urllib2, urllib, cookielib

username = 'Your_User_Name' #replace the text within quotes with your username
password = 'Password'	#replace the text within quotes with your password

jar = cookielib.FileCookieJar("cookies")
opener = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor(jar))

response = opener.open("http://10.239.89.15/reliance/startportal_isg.do")

login_data = urllib.urlencode({'userId' : username, 'password' : password, 'action' : 'doLoginSubmit'})
resp = opener.open('http://10.239.89.15/reliance/login.do', login_data)

Automate the script via crontab to make it run perodically to make sure that you are logged in.

Hope this script by Kunal Dua is found useful by a lot of similar Reliance Broadnet users like me.