Outbound HTML Authentication

[Shane Geiger]

twill is a simple language for browsing the Web.  It's designed for
automated testing of Web sites, but it can be used to interact with
Web sites in a variety of ways.  In particular, twill supports form
submission, cookies, redirects, and HTTP authentication.



Mudcat wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was trying to do a simple web scraping tool, but the network they
> use at work does some type of internal authentication before it lets
> the request out of the network. As a result I'm getting the '401 -
> Authentication Error' from the application.
>
> I know when I use a web browser or other application that it uses the
> information from my Windows AD to validate my user before it accesses
> a website. I'm constantly getting asked to enter in this info before I
> use Firefox, and I assume that IE picks it up automatically.
>
> However I'm not sure how to tell the request that I'm building in my
> python script to either use the info in my AD account or enter in my
> user/pass automatically.
>
> Anyone know how to do this?
>
> Thanks
>   


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Shane Geiger
IT Director
National Council on Economic Education
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