How to login https sever with inputing account name and password?

[Michael Rudolf]

Am 04.03.2010 11:38, schrieb Karen Wang:
> Hi all,
>
> I want to use python to access to https server, like
> "https://212.218.229.10/chinatest/"
>
> If open it from IE, will see the pop-up login windows like this
>
>
>
> I tried several ways but always only get page for" HTTP Error 401.2 -
> Unauthorized" error. ( myusername and mypassword are all correct)
>
> Below is my code:
>
> import urllib2
>
> values = {
>
>      'user' : "myusername",
>
> "pass' : "mypassword" }
>
> data = urllib2.urlencode(values)
>
> t = urllib2.urlopen('https://212.218.229.10/chinatest/',data)
>
> print t.read()
>
> where I am wrong ?

AFAIR does urlopen() expect the password to be Base64-encoded, not 
urlencoded.

You might also need to add an AUTH-Line. But this all does not matter, 
as there is more than one AUTH-Method you'd have to implement them all, 
but fortunately urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler and 
urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler exist.

So use them:

import urllib2
passman = urllib2.HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm()
passman.add_password(None, theurl, username, password)
authhandler = urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler(passman)
opener = urllib2.build_opener(authhandler)
urllib2.install_opener(opener)
pagehandle = urllib2.urlopen(theurl)

(taken from 
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles/authentication.shtml )

Further reference:
http://www.python.org/doc/2.5.2/lib/module-urllib2.html
http://www.python.org/doc/2.5.2/lib/urllib2-examples.html

HTH,
Michael