using httplib for authentication

[James Stroud]

Hello All,

I want to use python to download files from sites where authentication is 
required. The page appears to send a form with the login and pass by post. I 
would like to log in and keep this session open within python and 
download a number of files automatically. Could anyone kindly point me in the 
right direction? I have discovered httplib and read the documentation and 
looked at the examples, but they don't seem helpful for this.

James

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James Stroud
UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics
Box 951570
Los Angeles, CA 90095

http://www.jamesstroud.com/