Authentication, urllib, and httplib...

[Ryan Phillips]

This should help:
http://www.zope.org/Members/peterb/http_auth

-Ryan


"Vincent A. Primavera" <vincent_a_primavera at netzero.net> wrote in message
news:mailman.1009571133.29349.python-list at python.org...
> Hello,
> Trying to write a program to pull several Excel format reports off of a
> website which we at my company are spending alot of time on doing
> manually once a week.  The page has a form with several fields to be
> filled in before submitting.  Here's the problem, I can access the page
> with urllib's urlopen() but not with httplib's HTTPConnection.request()
> as I am getting a 401 Authorization Required error.  How can I be
> prompted for the user and password info as I am with urlopen()?  Or
> better yet pass these parameters?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Vincent A. Primavera
>
> P.S. I have all of the necessary field names with exception to the
> username and password...
>
>