Threading legality/morality

[Moshe Zadka]

[Aahz]
> There is a misfeature in urllib such that the standard FancyURLOpener
> class prompts for input if it gets an HTTP 401 (authorization needed).
> You probably pressed ENTER.

[Syver Enstad]
> Think so yes, how can it be fixed? I am pretty well versed in python but a
> pointer could be nice so I didn't use quite so much time on it.

1. No it can't be fixed. (Backwards compat.)
2. It doesn't need to be fixed -- urllib2 works much better

Python 2.1 has urllib2 with documentation. Find a howto in
http://www.lerner.co.il/~moshez/urllib2-howto.tex.
I'll try to find time to integrate it into the Python howto
project. 
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