#!/usr/bin/env python

import requests
import urllib
from lxml import etree

session = requests.Session()

tokenRequest = session.get('http://localhost/Account/Login')

parser = etree.HTMLParser()
tree = etree.fromstring(tokenRequest.text, parser)
verificationToken = tree.xpath('//form//input[@name="__RequestVerificationToken"]/@value')[0]

sessionCookies = tokenRequest.cookies

payload =  { 'Email' : 'somerandomemail@somedomain' , 'Password' : 'somerandompassword', '__RequestVerificationToken' : verificationToken}


raw = urllib.urlencode(payload)
headers = {'Content-Type': 'text/html; charset=utf-8','Origin':'http://localhost','Referer':'http://localhost/Account/Login'}
plateRequest = session.post('http://localhost/Account/Login', data=raw, cookies=sessionCookies, headers=headers)

print plateRequest.text

#print sessionCookies
#print raw

> <h1 class="text-danger">Error.</h1> <h2 class="text-danger">An error
> occurred while processing your request.</h2> <h2
> class="text-danger">Or maybe your session has ended, please <a
> href="~/Account/Login">Login</a> again.</h2>