On 05 Feb 2005 22:58:52 +0000, John J. Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jorgen Grahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [...] >> I did it this way successfully once ... it's probably the wrong approach in >> some ways, but It Works For Me. >> >> - used httplib.HTTPConnection for the HTTP parts, building my own requests >> with headers and all, calling h.send() and h.getresponse() etc. >> >> - created my own cookie container class (because there was a session >> involved, and logging in and such things, and all of it used cookies) ...
> I see little benefit and significant loss in using httplib instead of > urllib2, unless and until you get a particulary stubborn problem and > want to drop down a level to debug. It's easy to see and modify > urllib2's headers if you need to get low level. That's quite possibly true. I remember looking at and rejecting urllib/urllib2, but I cannot remember my reasons. Maybe I didn't feel they were documented well enough (in Python 2.1, which is where I live). [more useful info snipped] /Jorgen -- // Jorgen Grahn <jgrahn@ Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu \X/ algonet.se> R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
