BartlebyScrivener wrote: > New to Python and Programming. Trying to make scripts that will open > sites and automatically log me on. > > The following example is from the urllib2 module. > > What are "realm" and "host" in this example.
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2617.txt probably provides more background than you want on that topic, but googling for "basic authentication" and maybe "realm" and/or "host" will find you other sites with less technically detailed material. The first hit has a little summary amidst some Apache-specific detail. > Does anyone have a simple example of a script that opens, say, gmail or > some other commonly accessed site that requires a username and password > so that I can see how one is made? "realm" and "host" are associated with "basic authentication" and not all sites use that. If the browser pops up a little dialog box of its own (i.e not some Javascript-triggered thing) and you have to enter your username and password there, that's probably a "basic auth" (or "digest auth") site. If you fill that info into a form (as on gmail.com) you don't want any of that "realm/host" stuff. I'll leave it to others more expert in this to provide a more directly useful answer. -Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
