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

[BobAalsma]

Op vrijdag 21 september 2012 22:10:04 UTC+2 schreef Dennis Lee Bieber het volgende:
> On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 09:36:08 -0400, Jerry Hill
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> declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:
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> > On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 9:31 AM, BobAalsma wrote:
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> > > Thanks, Joel, yes, but as far as I'm aware these would all require the Python programme to have the user's username and password (or "credentials"), which I wanted to avoid.
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> > No matter what you do, your web service is going to have to
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> > authenticate with the remote web site.  The details of that
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> > authentication are going to vary with each remote web site you want to
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> > connect to.
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> 	Hmmm, convoluted but presuming the "login" third party site uses
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> cookies... Would it be possible to use Javascript on the client "copy"
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> the HTML from the third-party and then transmit it to the application
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> rather than having the application trying to do a direct fetch given
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> just the URL?
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> 	This should keep the authentication local to the client machine.
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> 	Wulfraed                 Dennis Lee Bieber         AF6VN
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Wulfraed, yes, as with David's proposal: this sounds good, but I wouldn't know the first thing about Javascript... 
I'm also concerned that both solutions would seem to imply distributing software (or "software") to the clients systems.
Hmm.

Bob