Fundamental problem with urllib...

[A.M. Kuchling]

In article <yNUw8.74422$T%5.18813 at atlpnn01.usenetserver.com>, 
	Steve Holden wrote:
> Since urllib knows nothing of cookies, you will need to integrate some sort
> of a cookie jar into the library, with a new API  for the clients to
> retrieve and store the cookies.

This is worthwhile, but I don't think it belongs in urllib.  It
belongs in a module or package of its own that provides general
Web-browser features such as cookies, remembering authentication
usernames and passwords, and a cache.  This package could then be used
for implementing HTML-scraping scripts, spiders, or a Web browser.

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