Re: Outbound HTML Authentication

2007-11-29 Thread Shane Geiger
twill is a simple language for browsing the Web. It's designed for automated testing of Web sites, but it can be used to interact with Web sites in a variety of ways. In particular, twill supports form submission, cookies, redirects, and HTTP authentication. Mudcat wrote: > Hi, > > I was tryin

Re: Outbound HTML Authentication

2007-11-29 Thread Chris Mellon
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

Re: Outbound HTML Authentication

2007-11-29 Thread Tyler Reguly
Hello, You should probably read the HTTP RFC is you're going to write a screen scraper... but either way. 401 tells you that Auth is required there are several types of "server-based auth" (Different from form based auth)... They include - Basic - Digest - NTLM (or Negotiate) Basic

Outbound HTML Authentication

2007-11-29 Thread Mudcat
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 appl