authentication and urllib help wanted

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 04:02:20PM -0500, Bruce Southey wrote:
> opened_url=urllib.urlopen('http://username:password@some_site','params')
> 
> When the username/password is incorrect, urllib (actually
> FancyURLopener) requests for username and password.  I would like to
> avoid this request so to trap any incorrect username/password
> combinations.

   Write your own URLOpener, using FancyURLOpener, or just URLOpener as a
base class, and handle errors yourself.

Oleg.
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