Cookies must be enabled in your browser [Python Requests]

Question

So I'm trying to log into my hotmail account via python and keep getting this response on the page when I make this request

r = requests.post('https://login.live.com', auth=('Email', 'Pass'),verify=False)

Cookies must be allowed

Your browser is currently set to block cookies. Your browser must allow cookies before you can use a Microsoft account.

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I would also like to mention that I am trying to httpPOST to this webpage because I would rather handle the cookies in the response and access other pages of my microsoft profile (rather than just accessing my email via the smtp server)

Thanks!

Edit :

import requests

s = requests.Session()
r = s.get('https://login.live.com',verify=False)
r = s.post('https://login.live.com', auth=('user', 'pass'),verify=False)
print r.status_code
print r.text

Solution

Use requests.Session to persist a session (with cookies included):

import requests

s = requests.Session()
res = s.get('https://login.live.com')
cookies = dict(res.cookies)
res = s.post('https://login.live.com', 
    auth=('Email', 'Password'),
    verify=False, 
    cookies=cookies)