[Mailman-Users] getting admin pages with python

[Robin Becker]

In article <15568.46099.498865.941742 at anthem.wooz.org>, Barry A. Warsaw
<barry at zope.com> writes
>
>>>>>> "RB" == Robin Becker <robin at reportlab.com> writes:
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>    RB> Unfortunately it seems that while urllib can manage http
>    RB> authentification just fine mailman requires cookies etc.
>
>    RB> Is there a neat way to use python to provide the correct
>    RB> behaviour?
>
>Robin,
>
>While I haven't had time to look at it at all, I saw recently on
>comp.lang.python.announce a package called ClientCookie.  The
>Cookie.py that comes with Python is really for managing cookies on the
>server side, which doesn't help you much (although it makes my life a
>lot easier :).
>
>ClientCookie looks like it'll probably make possible interacting with
>web pages that depend on cookies, via scripts on the client side.
>Check out the news group or the python-announce-list archives.
>
>-Barry
>
thanks a lot. I saw some discussion about setting the cookies on urllib2
requests etc so I think others are having similar issues. I will
certainly check out ClientCookie

http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/README-ClientCookie
-- 
Robin Becker