Andre Engels wrote: > Thanks for your help; it brought me quite a bit farther, but not as > far as I wanted to come. The authentication is basic authentication, > and I have been able to adapt the programs so that I now get my pages > correctly. > > However, the program uses not only 'GET' operations, but also 'PUT' > operations. These are done using httplib rather than urllib, and I > cannot see at this point how I can mimick those using urllib2.
The docs don't spell it out, but if you pass the 'data' parameter to urllib2.urlopen(), it will make a POST request instead of a GET. The data has to be formatted as application/x-www-form-urlencoded; urllib.urlencode() will do this for you. So for example: import urllib, urllib2 data = dict(param1='foo', param2='bar') data = urllib.urlencode(data) # set up your basic auth as before result = urllib2.urlopen('http://some.server.com', data).read() Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor