diff --git a/src/webapp/connection.py b/src/webapp/connection.py
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+import urllib
+import urllib2
+
+class Connection(object):
+    """
+    >>> conn = Connection()
+    >>> response = conn.login("http://blankfamily.us/login/", "username", "password")
+    """
+    def login(self, login_url, username, password):
+        cookies = urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor()
+        opener = urllib2.build_opener(cookies)
+        urllib2.install_opener(opener)
+        opener.open(login_url)
+        try:
+            self.token = [x.value for x in cookies.cookiejar if x.name == 'csrftoken'][0]
+        except IndexError:
+            return Exception("no csrftoken")
+        params = dict(username=username, 
+                      password=password, 
+                      next="/",
+                      csrfmiddlewaretoken=self.token,
+                      )
+        login_data = urllib.urlencode(params)
+        request = urllib2.Request(login_url, login_data)
+        response = urllib2.urlopen(request)
+        if response.geturl() == login_url:
+            raise Exception("Invalid password")
+        return response
+