The core of HTTP authentication is the following (you have to put the authentication into the HTTP header): import httplib h=httplib.HTTP(....) .... h.putheader("AUTHORIZATION", "Basic %s" % string.replace( encodestring("%s:%s" % (self.username, self.password)), "\012", "")) .... there is a xmlrpc howto where you find a detailed description: http://www.zope.org/Members/Amos/XML-RPC good luck phil *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 06.10.2000 at 14:22 Hung Jung Lu wrote:

Hi,

Where can I find out more information on HTTP user authentication? I have seen the RFC before, but it's a bit too technical to follow. I think Python does not include the authentication/cookie handling part probably because out of concern about abuses. :)

Does anyone know where I can find more info on the authentication and cookie protocol stuff? Is there any Python module already written to handle these things?

The idea is to be able to fetch external webpages automatically using Python, including providing the necessary auth and cookie info. Of course this opens up a whole can of security worms, but heck, it's open information and someone must already have written something in Python already.

regards,

Hung Jung _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.

_______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )