user/passwd entry

[John Smith]

Hello,

I'm wondering how to enter the user and password for a site over http?
What's the module that I should use: urllib, htmllib, HTMLParser, httplib?
What are the classes I should call, etc? Thanks for any help.

-k

 

[Erik Max Francis]

I'm wondering how to enter the user and password for a site over http?
What's the module that I should use: urllib, htmllib, HTMLParser,
httplib?
What are the classes I should call, etc? Thanks for any help.

It depends on exactly how you're entering the password. If it's just
part of a form, then you'd do it through normal CGI means. If it's
actually HTTP authentication, then you can do that by subclassing
urllib.URLopener.