secure login on web

[Olav Bandmann]

Ben Hutchings wrote:
> 
> Brian Lee <senux at senux.nospam> writes:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > With Python, I want to write a code to make a secure login
> > on web. How can I do that with Python? Is there any related
> > Python module?
> 
> It's not quite clear to me whether you're talking about the client or
> server end of things.  The httplib module is useful for web clients.
> For the server end there are various options - CGI (with the help of
> the CGI module), the Zope server, mod_snake or mod_python for Apache,
> or similar extensions for IIS.

If you're talking about client side ("session-persistent") SSL login,
you
should check out "webbot.py" at
http://starship.python.net/crew/jrush/Webbot/
as an example.

> I assume by 'secure login' you mean that login information should be
> sent over an SSL connection.  httplib doesn't support SSL 'out of the
> box', but I think you can add that capability using one of the modules
> listed at <http://www.vex.net/parnassus/apyllo.py?find=ssl>.

You will need to install OpenSSL anyway (if you haven't installed it
already).
After that, all you need to do is to recompile your fresh copy of Python
2.1.