import mechanize

b = mechanize.Browser()
b.set_handle_robots(False)
b.add_client_certificate("https://idp.mit.edu:9443", "cert.pem", "cert.pem")
b.addheaders = [("Accept-Language", "en-us,en;q=0.5"),]
b.open("https://jira.mit.edu/jira/secure/Dashboard.jspa")
b.follow_link(text="MIT Touchstone")
b.select_form("wayfForm1")
b.submit()
b.select_form(predicate=lambda f: any(c.name == 'login_certificate'
                                      for c in f.controls))
b.submit()
b.select_form(nr=0)
b.submit()
print b.response().read()