def get_browser(self):
"""
Each FAUrl object stores it's own browser instance. On the first call
it is created and if the username and password is set it will
authenticate you.
:return: mechanize.Browser instance.
:raise: FAiler.FAError if FA is down. Time to F5!
:raise: FAiler.FAAuth Your username and password failed
"""
if self._br is None:
br = Browser()
br.set_handle_robots(False)
br.set_handle_redirect(True)
br.set_handle_referer(True)
br.set_handle_equiv(True)
br.addheaders = [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008071615 Fedora/3.0.1-1.fc9 Firefox/3.0.1')]
if self._username is not None and self._password is not None:
loginPage = 'https://www.furaffinity.net/login'
try:
br.open(loginPage)
except urllib2.HTTPError:
raise FAError("FA's down, F5 time.")
br.form = br.global_form()
br.form['name'] = self._username
br.form['pass'] = self._password
br.form.method = 'POST'
br.submit()
if br.geturl() == loginPage + '/?msg=1':
raise FAAuth('Username & Password Incorrect')
self._br = br
return self._br
