urllib: an alternative URLOpener

[Markus Fleck]

Moshe Zadka <moshez at math.huji.ac.il> wrote:
> Whom do I contact about adding the following code to urllib:
> -------------->8-------------->8-------------------------
> class QuietFancyURLOpener(FancyURLOpener):
>         def prompt_user_password(self, host, realm):
>                 return None, None
> -------------->8-------------->8-------------------------
> (Yes, I realize I can put it in my own program. But it seems a generally
> useful thing for non-interactive downloaders)

While we're at it... :-) - It might also be nice to have a FancyURLOpener
that raises an exception on an authentication mismatch. And one that takes
a user-defined user/password table dictionary or a callback function.

Yours,
Markus.

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