htaccess & urllib

[John J. Lee]

"Max Khesin" <max at cNOvSisiPonAtecMh.com> writes:

> Is there a way to access an htaccess-protected directory with urllib,
> password being known?

urllib2 is better than urllib.

>From the urllib2 module docstring, cut down a bit (and assuming you
mean basic HTTP authentication -- HTTPDigestAuthHandler might also be
of use to you):

import urllib2

authinfo = urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler()
authinfo.add_password('realm', 'host', 'username', 'password')

opener = urllib2.build_opener(authinfo)

f = opener.open('http://www.python.org/')

print f.info()  # response headers
print f.read()  # response body


John