On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Titus Brown wrote: > On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 11:22:21AM -0400, Jon Miller wrote: > -> I have used the mechanize module to help automate some web browser > -> functionality, but this is the first time I've ran across the twill > -> package. With mechanize I had problems with the M$ pages using NTLM > -> authentication and I never found resolution. > -> I tried searching the twill site for any mention of NTLM support, but > -> hadn't found anything. What is the current state of using twill with > -> NTLM authenticated sites? > > hi, Jon, > > twill is built on top of mechanize -- and at the moment, mechanize only > supports HTTP Basic Authentication.
...and I'm not going to add this in the immediate future because I think it requires a persistent connection, and mechanize / urllib2 don't currently do that (but there's no reason why they shouldn't of course). Titus' suggestion of using a proxy is the most practical one ATM. (if somebody else wants to add this to mechanize, patches are welcome) John _______________________________________________ twill mailing list [email protected] http://lists.idyll.org/listinfo/twill
