HTTP authentication

[Giorgi Lekishvili]

Hi all!

I would be much obliged if someone provides an example of the working code.

Grtz,
Giorgi

Preston Tamkin wrote:

> hello all. I've just recently jumped on the python bandwagon, and I need
> some help!
> I'm trying to write a program(in python) to go out to several websites and
> get a few numbers off of the page. Only problem is, I need to give the site
> a username and password! It's not HTTPS, SSL, or anything like that.  I did
> some packet sniffing and it is a HTTP POST command, the server then requests
> the information then the client sends the u/p. I'm using raw sockets and
> can't figure out how to listen for the "request" packet or excatly what to
> send for the last part. The site uses ASP. It's http://boards.ign.com if you
> want to look at it.  Is there an easier way to do it? Am I just simply
> missing something? Thanks in advance
>
> P.S. Me = TOTAL n00b