urllib2: pwd protected urls

[Andrei Kulakov]

In article <slrnac0r2p.ol1.ak at ak.silmarill.org>, Andrei Kulakov wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I can't figure out how to get pwd-protected urls using urllib2. Here's
> what I'm doing:
> 
>>>> from urllib2 import *
>>>> a = HTTPBasicAuthHandler()
>>>> a.add_password("default", "host.net", "login", "password")
>>>> o = build_opener(a)
>>>> install_opener(o)
>>>> f = urlopen("http://host.net/file.zip")
> 
> I get Error 401: Auth required
> 
> What's 'realm'? I set it to 'default' and I also tried None.
> 

Geoff Gerrietts told me how to do this:

urlobj = urllib.urlopen("http://login:password@host.net/file.zip")


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