On 11 Nov, 07:02, Ken Seehart <k...@seehart.com> wrote: > I'm having some difficulty implementing a client that needs to maintain > an authenticated https: session. > > I'd like to avoid the approach of receiving a 401 and resubmit with > authentication, for two reasons: > > 1. I control the server, and it was easy for me to make a url that > receives a POST with username, password and authenticates the session. > The server keeps a session correctly when I test with a browser. This > part works fine. > > 2. I don't want to send every request twice. > Seehttp://bugs.python.org/issue7159 There's no reason why I should have to > do this since I have the ability to keep the server simple. > > What I would really like to do is send one request with the username and > password to establish the session, and then make multiple authenticated > requests where the session information remembers the authentication. > > Is there a way to make this happen in python 2.5.2? > > Keep in mind that this only needs to work with a particular server which > I control. It does not need to function as a general purpose browser. > The server is powered by Django. > > - Ken
How about http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/auth/ and using a urllib2 opener with cookie support ala some examples on http://personalpages.tds.net/~kent37/kk/00010.html ? hth, Jon. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
