>From Christian: > Try subclassing urllib.FancyURLopener and overriding the > prompt_user_passwd() method. That should get you what you need :-)
Well, I used urllib.FancyURLopener, and can open and look at the url, like this: import urllib opener2 = urllib.FancyURLopener({}) f = opener2.open("http://www.pythonchallenge.com/pc/return/romance.html") f.read() ..but to get at the cookies, I need to use urllib2.build_opener instead of urllib.FancyURLopener so that I can have access to urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor, which does not seem to be an option in the regular urllib module? Sorry if this seems like a dense question, I have little-to-no experience with cookies (and very little with urllib itself), so the examples sometimes leave me hanging! Does anyone know a way to use an opener (like that above from urllib2) that can process cookies AND can pass in a user/pass (like FancyURLopener from urllib)? I'm not having much luck trying to do both things at once! Thanks, Denise P.S. Kent - thank you for the helpful tutorials on authentication, they really cleared up the process a great deal. The only problem is: When I create an opener to process the cookies, it looks like this: opener = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor(myjar)) ..where myjar is cookielib.CookieJar() But in the examples for authentication, when I create the opener: opener = urllib2.build_opener(authhandler) ..where authhandler is urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler(passwordmanager) So both use build_opener, but the thing I pass in, from what I am looking at so far, has to be a cookie processor OR an authenticator. How can I do both at once? _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor