Cannot Login - Error: Not logged properly

[timothymowens]

Whenever I try to login using the same credentials I use for the addic7ed.com website, I get the following error:

Error: Not logged properly

Command I'm running, per instructions/help:

addic7ed login

I've verified that I'm entering my credentials in properly, yet logging in fails. I've tried on 3 different machines using addic7ed-cli, same issue on all 3 machines.

I tried running in verbose mode, but there was no difference in the output. I'm running the following version:

$ addic7ed -V
addic7ed version 1.4.5

$ python --version
Python 2.7.15rc1

I also tried reinstalling, the following packages were reinstalled, issue still exists:

Successfully installed addic7ed-cli-1.4.5 certifi-2019.3.9 chardet-3.0.4 cssselect-1.0.3 idna-2.8 lxml-4.3.3 pyquery-1.4.0 requests-2.22.0 urllib3-1.25.3

Edit: I just tried using Python 3.6.7 and still have the same issue.

[timothymowens]

For now, I just logged into the addic7ed.com website, then ran the following in the browser debugging console:

alert(document.cookie.match(/PHPSESSID=[^;]+/));

Then copied the session ID from the java alert into my ~/.config/addic7ed file below [session].

To test, I downloaded a sub with addic7ed-cli with my session ID stored, then checked my profile on the website to see if it recognized the download. Sure enough, it logged the download; so the session I added to my addic7ed-cli config works for now.

I'm not sure why addic7ed-cli isn't able to post to /dologin.php properly. It looks like the correct form fields are being used in the post (username, password).

Does it have anything to do with the site using https?

[vBm]

They have added captcha on their login page (it's random) so maybe that's the issue.

[BenoitZugmeyer]

Indeed, it seems they have put a silent captcha. Looks like it'll be hard to bypass. Sorry guys, I don't think we'll be able to login anymore.

[timothymowens]

Perhaps you could leave the session functionality in place, remove the login/logout for now and provide instructions for manually capturing the session ID and adding it to the .config/addic7ed file. That worked perfectly for me.

[BenoitZugmeyer]

Ah, yes. I'll think about it. I could do something like displaying the instructions, and then a prompt for the session id instead of a prompt for username/password.

[Abhinav1217]

Same issue, I can't login because of reCAPTCHA

abhinav@abhinav-sol ~/.config $ addic7ed login
User: Abhinav1217
Password: 
Error: Make sure to reCHAPTCHA Try again

For the time being, I tried the solution mention above for using alert(document.cookie.match(/PHPSESSID=[^;]+/));. Is there any permanent solution to this?

[JoelSjogren]

Here's a relevant thread: http://www.sub-talk.net/topic/7806-api-for-software-usage