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
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James Stroud wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I want to use python to download files from sites where authentication is
> required. The page appears to send a form with the login and pass by post. I
> would like to log in and keep this session open within python and
> download a number of files automatical
Hello All,
I want to use python to download files from sites where authentication is
required. The page appears to send a form with the login and pass by post. I
would like to log in and keep this session open within python and
download a number of files automatically. Could anyone kindly point
