Thank you Fuzzy, I will look into these things. Maybe the site is setting a cookie, as you have suggested. I have never delved into the ways of http except to configure apache and write some very bare-bones web pages, so I have to say that some very obvious things do not occur to me.
James On Wednesday 03 August 2005 08:41 am, Fuzzyman wrote: > Hello James, > > httplib is built on top of the socket module - but is still a library > meant for doing fairly low level http operations. For fetching URLs, > urllib2 is probably the way to go. It handles GET and POST with ease. > > If you think this will do the job then you could try reading the > urllib2 tutorial at : > > http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles.shtml#http > > You might wnat to look at other extension modules too - ClientCookie > for handling cookies, ClientForm for automatically filling in the > forms, BeautifulSoup for parsing HTML pages.... > > All the Best, > > Fuzzy > http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
