newbie: HTTPS screen scraping

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On Apr 21, 11:38 am, u... at domain.invalid wrote:
> Hi,
>     Can anyone help me out here. I would like to authenticate myself to
> a website which uses HTTPS and then after authentication, I would like
> to get the contents of the webpage. How can this be done using python.
> I have tried urllib and urllib2 but it has not solved my problem.
>
> TIA
> /varun

http://pycurl.sourceforge.net/