> but googling for "basic authentication" and > maybe "realm" and/or "host" will find you other sites with less > technically detailed material.
This looks promising, but it'll take me a week to understand it :) http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles/authentication.shtm Thanks for your help with the search terms. rpd l Peter Hansen wrote: > BartlebyScrivener wrote: > > New to Python and Programming. Trying to make scripts that will open > > sites and automatically log me on. > > > > The following example is from the urllib2 module. > > > > What are "realm" and "host" in this example. > > http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2617.txt probably provides more background > than you want on that topic, but googling for "basic authentication" and > maybe "realm" and/or "host" will find you other sites with less > technically detailed material. The first hit has a little summary > amidst some Apache-specific detail. > > > Does anyone have a simple example of a script that opens, say, gmail or > > some other commonly accessed site that requires a username and password > > so that I can see how one is made? > > "realm" and "host" are associated with "basic authentication" and not > all sites use that. If the browser pops up a little dialog box of its > own (i.e not some Javascript-triggered thing) and you have to enter your > username and password there, that's probably a "basic auth" (or "digest > auth") site. If you fill that info into a form (as on gmail.com) you > don't want any of that "realm/host" stuff. > > I'll leave it to others more expert in this to provide a more directly > useful answer. > > -Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list