Newbie problem with HTTP Redirection in Python 2.4 urllib2

[Sriram Krishnan]

I really can't use 2.3 as I need the integrated client-side cookie
support in 2.4. Downloading libcurl extension or the Cookie library is
not an option- I need to write a program which handles client side
cookies.

I really don't want to muck around with HTTP and send the cookies
myself..that is the last resort which I don't want to think of right
now

Regards,
Sriram