From 7304f04c6ff7d94fc77bd2aa58c74e8e54d5ca47 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Jacobs <c.jacobs10@imperial.ac.uk>
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 23:30:19 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Added a function to initiate a session with the qrz.com
 server.

---
 src/callsign_lookup.py | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/callsign_lookup.py b/src/callsign_lookup.py
index 6cea832..8e7d3f7 100644
--- a/src/callsign_lookup.py
+++ b/src/callsign_lookup.py
@@ -20,7 +20,20 @@
 
 from gi.repository import Gtk, GObject
 import logging
+import httplib
 
 # Uses qrz.com to lookup details about a particular callsign.
 
+def init_session(username, password):
+   ''' Initiates a session with the qrz.com server. Hopefully this will return a session ID. '''
+   connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('xmldata.qrz.com', port=443)
+   request = '/xml/current/?username=%s;password=%s;agent=pyqso' % (username, password)
+   connection.request('GET', request)
+   response = connection.getresponse()
+   data = response.read()
+
+   if(successful):
+      return session_id
+   else:
+      return None