How to apply the user's HTML environment in a Python programme?

[BobAalsma]

Op vrijdag 21 september 2012 17:28:02 UTC+2 schreef David Smith het volgende:
> On 2012-09-21 08:57, BobAalsma wrote:
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> > This text can be behind a username/password, but for several reasons, I don't want to know those.
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> > So I would like to set up a situation where the user logs in (if/when appropriate), points out the URL to my programme and my programme would then be able to read that particular text.
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> I do this from a bat file that I will later translate to Python.
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> I tell my work wiki which file I want. I use chrome, so for every new 
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> session I'm asked for my credentials. However, that is all transparent 
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> to my bat file.
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> For that matter, when I download a new build from part of another bat 
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> file, I use Firefox and never see the credential exchange.
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> I wouldn't expect any different behavior using Python.

Umm, David, sorry, you've lost me but I think this could be a good solution - at least the division in client side/server side sounds like what I'm looking for. Could you please elaborate?

Bob