I'm trying to log in to a website from this URL: "https://pollev.com/login". Since I'm using a school email, the portal redirects to the school's login portal and uses that portal to authenticate the login. It shows up when you type in a uw.edu email (example: [email protected]). After logging in, UW sends a POST request callback to https://www.polleverywhere.com/auth/washington/callback with a SAMLResponse header like this. I think I need to simulate the GET request from pollev's login page and then send the login headers to the UW login page, but what I'm doing right now isn't working.
Here's my code:
import requests
with requests.session() as s:
header_data = {
'user - agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 '
'(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/69.0.3497.100 Safari/537.36',
'referer': 'https://pollev.com/login'
}
login_data = {
'j_username' : 'username',
'j_password' : 'password',
'_eventId_proceed' : 'Sign in'
}
r = s.get('https://idp.u.washington.edu/idp/profile/SAML2/Redirect/SSO?execution=e2s1',
headers=header_data, data=login_data)
print(r.text)
Right now, r.text shows a NoSuchFlowExecutionException html page. What am I missing? Logging into the website normally requires a login, password, Referrer, and X-CSRF token which I was able to do, but I don't know how to navigate a redirect for authentication.
You're not going to be successful faking out SAML2 SSO. The identity provider (IdP) at UW is looking to support an authentication request from the service provider (SP) polleverywhere.com. Part of that is verifying the request actually originated from polleverywhere. This could be as simple has requiring SSL connection from polleverywhere, it could be as complicated as requiring an encrypted & signed authentication request. Since you don't have those credentials, the resulting response isn't going to be readable. SPs are registered with IdPs.
Now, there may be a different way to sign into polleverywhere -- a different URL which will not trigger an SSO request, but that might be network restricted or require other difficult authentication.