On Nov 29, 2007 2:22 PM, Mudcat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I was trying to do a simple web scraping tool, but the network they > use at work does some type of internal authentication before it lets > the request out of the network. As a result I'm getting the '401 - > Authentication Error' from the application. > > I know when I use a web browser or other application that it uses the > information from my Windows AD to validate my user before it accesses > a website. I'm constantly getting asked to enter in this info before I > use Firefox, and I assume that IE picks it up automatically. > > However I'm not sure how to tell the request that I'm building in my > python script to either use the info in my AD account or enter in my > user/pass automatically. >
You can configure a proxy for urllib2, but your proxy probably uses NTLM authentication which urllib2 doesn't support. Your best bet is to use a local proxy which understands NTLM. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
