websucker.py versus password-protected web tree

[John van der Koijk]

    >> 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

    >> - 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?

    >>    urllib can cope with this - look for http_error_401. You may
    >> modify your URLs to http://user:passwd@host/path.

I get a 401 error all right... The http://user:passwd@host/path does
not seem to work in this case...

Thanks,
-- 
John van der Koijk.