Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Øyvind Østlund wrote: > > > I am trying to visit a limited amount of web pages that requires cookies. I > > will get redirected if my application does not handle them. I am using > > urllib.urlopen() to visit the pages right now. And I need a push in the > > right direction to find out how to deal with pages that requires cookies. > > Anyone have any idea how to go about this? > > use urllib2 and cookielib. here's an outline: > > import urllib2, cookielib > > # set things up > jar = cookielib.CookieJar() > handler = urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor(jar) > opener = urllib2.build_opener(handler) > urllib2.install_opener(opener) > > data = urllib2.urlopen(someurl).read() > > # ... > > data = urllib2.urlopen(someotherurl).read() > > # ... > > # dump cookie jar contents (for debugging) > for cookie in jar: > print cookie > > </F>
How would this outline be changed/expanded if it also needed to handle basic authentication? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
