John Nagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you try to open a password protected page with "urllib.urlopen()", you > get > > "Enter username for EnterPassword at example.com:" > > on standard output, followed by a read for input! This seems to be an > undocumented feature, if not a bug. Definitely the documentation for > "urllib" should mention this. The effects of this in a CGI program > are not good. > > A workaround is described here: "http://cis.poly.edu/cs912/urlopen.txt"; > "URLopener" and "FancyURLopener" in urllib have many overrideable > functions, none of which are documented at python.org and should be. [...]
Bug reports tend not to result in a fix being applied unless the reporter him/herself actually goes to the trouble of filing a patch at sourceforge.net : http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=5470&atid=305470 John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
