Web authentication

luigipaioro luigipaioro at libero.it
Thu Dec 4 10:20:08 EST 2003


Good morning to all!

I'm trying to access on a web page that needs user and password
authentication. I'm enabled to access there (I mean that I have an
user name and a password to access via web), but I cannot access using
an automatic procedure (that is what I need to make a daemon that
downloads weekly an ASCII file from that site).

I've tried using urllib:

import urllib

conn = urlib.urlopen("http://user:password@www.mysite.com")
print conn.read()

But it doesn't work (it asks me again user and password).

Does anybody know how can I acces to my site with authentication?

I think that urllib2 can help me but I don't undestand how!!!

Thaks

Luigi






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