user/passwd entry

[Erik Max Francis]

John Smith wrote:

> I'm wondering how to enter the user and password for a site over http?
> What's the module that I should use: urllib, htmllib, HTMLParser,
> httplib?
> What are the classes I should call, etc?  Thanks for any help.

It depends on exactly how you're entering the password.  If it's just
part of a form, then you'd do it through normal CGI means.  If it's
actually HTTP authentication, then you can do that by subclassing
urllib.URLopener.

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