Announcing: python-ntlm http://code.google.com/p/python-ntlm/
python-ntlm is a library that provides NTLM support, including an authentication handler for urllib2. This library allows you to retrieve content from (usually corporate) servers protected with windows authentication (NTLM) using the python urllib2. For more details and downloads visit: http://code.google.com/p/python-ntlm/ == Example Usage == import urllib2 from ntlm import HTTPNtlmAuthHandler user = 'DOMAIN\User' password = "Password" url = "http://ntlmprotectedserver/securedfile.html" passman = urllib2.HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm() passman.add_password(None, url, user, password) # create the NTLM authentication handler auth_NTLM = HTTPNtlmAuthHandler.HTTPNtlmAuthHandler(passman) # create and install the opener opener = urllib2.build_opener(auth_NTLM) urllib2.install_opener(opener) # retrieve the result response = urllib2.urlopen(url) print(response.read()) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list