Python Scripts to logon to websites

[Peter Hansen]

BartlebyScrivener wrote:
>>but googling for "basic authentication" and
>>maybe "realm" and/or "host" will find you other sites with less
>>technically detailed material.
> 
> This looks promising, but it'll take me a week to understand it :)
> 
> http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles/authentication.shtm

(Minor typo... needs an extra "l" on the end:

http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles/authentication.shtml
)

By the way, note that neither basic auth nor digest auth provide any 
real security, and in fact with basic auth the userid and password are 
sent *in cleartext*.  For any serious production site these techniques 
should probably not be used without additional security measures in 
place, such as HTTPS encryption.

-Peter