urllib: an alternative URLOpener

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <slrn7mef1g.1b0.davecook at sputnik.escnd1.sdca.home.com>,
David M. Cook <davecook at home.com> wrote:
>
>Please forgive the naive question, but how does one get the "realm" info
>from a site?

IIRC, the challenge contains that info.  urllib should be handling this
automatically; if you want to see what it is directly, I don't know if
there's a Python mechanism, but you can do something like this:

% telnet www.foo.com 80
GET / HTTP/1.0\n
\n
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