In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Barry A. Warsaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > >>>>>> "RB" == Robin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > RB> Unfortunately it seems that while urllib can manage http > RB> authentification just fine mailman requires cookies etc. > > RB> Is there a neat way to use python to provide the correct > RB> behaviour? > >Robin, > >While I haven't had time to look at it at all, I saw recently on >comp.lang.python.announce a package called ClientCookie. The >Cookie.py that comes with Python is really for managing cookies on the >server side, which doesn't help you much (although it makes my life a >lot easier :). > >ClientCookie looks like it'll probably make possible interacting with >web pages that depend on cookies, via scripts on the client side. >Check out the news group or the python-announce-list archives. > >-Barry > thanks a lot. I saw some discussion about setting the cookies on urllib2 requests etc so I think others are having similar issues. I will certainly check out ClientCookie
http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/README-ClientCookie -- Robin Becker ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py
