websucker.py versus password-protected web tree

[Fredrik Henbjork]

John van der Koijk wrote:
> 
> Dear readers,
> 
> I'm out of luck trying to mirror a certain web-tree which is protected
> by a password-username combination. Don't know how the protocol works
> and when I use a browser I get something like this:
> 
>         Name                    Last modified       Size  Description
>   __________________________________________________________________________
> 
>  [DIR]  Parent Directory        01-Oct-1999 12:26      -
>  [TXT]  Test.htm                03-Oct-1999 14:29     1k
>  [DIR]  demo/                   05-Oct-1999 19:21      -
>  [TXT]  download.htm            05-Oct-1999 20:14     3k
>  [   ]  es_demo.exe             03-Oct-1999 16:18   3.6M
>  [DIR]  full/                   05-Oct-1999 19:44      -
>  [DIR]  limited/                05-Oct-1999 20:04      -
>      _________________________________________________________________
> 
> - I know the username and password ;-)
> 
> Websucker seems unable to cope with this and I can't find relevant
> references in the urllib docs. Any pointers? Should I alter the URL?
> 
> Greetings,
> --
> John van der Koijk.
> --
> TNO Institute of Industrial Technology
> 
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Say you have the following:
site url: www.deadparrot.org
username: sirrobin
password: brave
file: spam.txt
To access the file use:
sirrobin:brave at www.deadparrot.org/spam.txt
as the url. For exampel in Netscape you would write:
http://sirrobin:brave@www.deadparrot.org/spam.txt
There may also be other ways to do it websucker.py
but since I haven't used the module I can't tell
for sure.

-- 
Fredrik Henbjork

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