[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i am writing a simple webspider .
how do i avoid getting stuck at something like this:
Enter username for W3CACL at www.w3.org:
?
It's a silly feature of urllib. See
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-urllib.html
where it says:
"Note: When performing basic authentication, a FancyURLopener instance calls its
prompt_user_passwd() method. The default implementation asks the users for the
required information on the controlling terminal. A subclass may override this
method to support more appropriate behavior if needed."
Yes, the default behavior when faced with a site that wants authentication
is to to ask for a user name and password on standard input. This is
seldom what you want.
So subclass and overrride.
John Nagle
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