On Oct 13, 11:41 pm, rodrigo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to retrieve a password protected page using: > > get = urllib.urlopen('http://password.protected.url"').read() > > While doing this interactively, I'm asked for the username, then the > password at the terminal. > Is there any way to do this non-interactively? To hardcode the user/ > pass into the script so I can get the page automatically? > > (This is not a cracking attempt, I am trying to retrieve a page I have > legitimate access to, just doing it automatically when certain > conditions are met.) > > Thanks, > > Rodrigo
The pexpect module works nicely for automating tasks that normally require user interaction. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list