http authentication

[Steve Holden]

<huthut at my-deja.com> wrote in message news:93qsjl$c6o$1 at nnrp1.deja.com...
> Please forgive my, probably, very naive question.
> Im trying to hack togethe ra script that will download a number of
> files off a internet site. The only problem is that this site is
> password protected (in IE a box pops up for username and password). So
> first i tried the urllib.FancyURLopener.open(url) which prompted me for
> a username but then froze. Then i tried .open
> ('http://user:password@www.somewhere.com') but then i got:
>
> File "c:\python20\lib\urllib.py", line 513, in __init__
>     apply(URLopener.__init__, (self,) + args)
>   File "c:\python20\lib\urllib.py", line 91, in __init__
>     assert hasattr(proxies, 'has_key'), "proxies must be a mapping"
> AssertionError: proxies must be a mapping
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
> Thanks in advance

Best approach would probably be to include the Basic authentication headers
in the request you send to the server, using httplib.putheader().

regards
 Steve