import mechanize
import cookielib
br = mechanize.Browser()
cj = cookielib.LWPCookieJar()
br.set_cookiejar(cj)
br.set_handle_equiv(True)
br.set_handle_gzip(True)
br.set_handle_redirect(True)
br.set_handle_referer(True)
br.set_handle_robots(False)
br.set_handle_refresh(mechanize._http.HTTPRefreshProcessor(), max_time=1)
br.set_debug_http(False)
br.addheaders = [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/15.0.1')]
response = br.open('http://xxxx/signon')
br.select_form(name='loginFrm')
br.form['userName'] = 'xxx'
br.form['password'] = 'yyy'
br.submit()
print 'login successful!'
response = br.open('http://xxxx/app/application/attendmanage/vieworiginaldata.jsp')
br.select_form(name='form1')
br.form.set_all_readonly(False)
br.form.action = 'http://xxxx/app/servlet/ViewOriginalDataServlet'
br.form['fromdate'] = '2012-09-05'
br.submit()
print br.response().read()