March 2003
Intermediate to advanced
656 pages
39h 30m
English
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Name
prompt_user_passwd
Synopsis
f.prompt_user_passwd(host,realm)
Returns a pair
(
user,password
)
to use to authenticate access to host in
the security realm. The default
implementation in class FancyURLopener prompts the
user for this data in interactive text mode. Your subclass can
override this method for such purposes as interacting with the user
via a GUI or fetching authentication data from persistent storage.