HTTP Authentication using urllib2
Wojtek Walczak
gminick at bzt.bzt
Fri Apr 24 17:45:10 EDT 2009
On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 04:25:20 -0700 (PDT), Lakshman wrote:
> I am trying to authenticate using urllib2. The basic authentication
> works if I hard code authheaders.
...
> except IOError, e:
> print "Something wrong. This shouldnt happen"
First of all, don't shoot yourself in the foot and check what
the exceptions are, i.e.:
except:
import traceback
print traceback.format_exc()
Second, better use mechanize:
http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/mechanize/
HTH,
--
Regards,
Wojtek Walczak,
http://tosh.pl/gminick/
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