BartlebyScrivener wrote: >>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
(Minor typo... needs an extra "l" on the end: http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles/authentication.shtml ) By the way, note that neither basic auth nor digest auth provide any real security, and in fact with basic auth the userid and password are sent *in cleartext*. For any serious production site these techniques should probably not be used without additional security measures in place, such as HTTPS encryption. -Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list