I had a look at urllib2 and I found this example :- import urllib2 # Create an OpenerDirector with support for Basic HTTP Authentication... auth_handler = urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler() auth_handler.add_password('realm', 'host', 'username', 'password') opener = urllib2.build_opener(auth_handler) # ...and install it globally so it can be used with urlopen. urllib2.install_opener(opener) urllib2.urlopen('http://www.example.com/login.html')
One question, what does realm refer to and also what does it mean by host ? Thanks in advance. --- Alan G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sorry of course that is the problem. These pages > are > > password protected !!!! > > Is it possible to download password protected > pages (I > > know the password but I don't how to get the > program > > to use it). > > That will depend on how the protection is > implemented. > If your server is a J2EE box with full blown > Kerberos > security it may be almost impossible. If it's a more > > conventional server like apache which is protecting > a file or folder then you may only have to submit > the username and password - ie login! - or build > that into a cookie. > > If the protection is done by the application itself > then > it could be anywhere in between those two extremes. > > HTH, > > Alan G. > ___________________________________________________________ To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre. http://uk.security.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor