[Tutor] password protection in httplib

[Andre Engels]

2006/3/2, Kent Johnson <kent37 at tds.net>:
> Andre Engels wrote:
> > Thanks for your help; it brought me quite a bit farther, but not as
> > far as I wanted to come. The authentication is basic authentication,
> > and I have been able to adapt the programs so that I now get my pages
> > correctly.
> >
> > However, the program uses not only 'GET' operations, but also 'PUT'
> > operations. These are done using httplib rather than urllib, and I
> > cannot see at this point how I can mimick those using urllib2.
>
> The docs don't spell it out, but if you pass the 'data' parameter to
> urllib2.urlopen(), it will make a POST request instead of a GET. The
> data has to be formatted as application/x-www-form-urlencoded;
> urllib.urlencode() will do this for you.
>
> So for example:
>
> import urllib, urllib2
> data = dict(param1='foo', param2='bar')
> data = urllib.urlencode(data)
>
> # set up your basic auth as before
> result = urllib2.urlopen('http://some.server.com', data).read()

Thanks, I've gotten some further again, but the following problem is
that I am using this connection to get some cookies, which are read
from the page headers. As far as I can see, urllib2 puts the page
headers into a dictionary, which is not what I need, because there are
4 different set-cookie headers sent out by the site, and I get only
one "set-cookie" value. Am I right in this, and is there a way around
it?


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