htaccess & urllib

[Max Khesin]

Is there a way to access an htaccess-protected directory with urllib,
password being known?
thanks,
max
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[Max Khesin]

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[Rene Pijlman]

Max Khesin:

Is there a way to access an htaccess-protected directory with urllib,
password being known?

..htaccess is not a protection mechanism, but a configuration
file. If this configuration file specifies HTTP Basic
Authentication you can use:

"class FancyURLopener(...)
basic HTTP authentication is performed ...
Note: When performing basic authentication, a FancyURLopener
instance calls its prompt_user_passwd() method. The default
implementation asks the users for the required information on
the controlling terminal. A subclass may override this method to
support more appropriate behavior if needed."
http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-urllib.html

 

[John J. Lee]

Is there a way to access an htaccess-protected directory with urllib,
password being known?

urllib2 is better than urllib.

From the urllib2 module docstring, cut down a bit (and assuming you
mean basic HTTP authentication -- HTTPDigestAuthHandler might also be
of use to you):

import urllib2

authinfo = urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler()
authinfo.add_password('realm', 'host', 'username', 'password')

opener = urllib2.build_opener(authinfo)

f = opener.open('http://www.python.org/')

print f.info() # response headers
print f.read() # response body


John