jjl at pobox.com (John J. Lee) writes: > Doesn't/shouldn't http://user:passwd@example.com/blah.html work? It ought to but I don't know if urllib supports it. I've always done it the other way, with that FancyURLOpener subclass. > I don't know where that syntax is specified (if anywhere) -- do you > know, Paul? Part of the http spec.