Python in a Nutshell

Name

add_password

Synopsis

                           x.add_password(realm,URLs,user,password)

Records in x the pair ( user,password ) as the authentication in the given realm of applicable URLs, as determined by argument URLs. realm is either a string, the name of an authentication realm, or None, to apply this authentication as the default for any realm not specifically recorded. URLs is a URL string or a sequence of URL strings. A URL u is deemed applicable for this authentication if there is an item u1 of URLs such that the location components of u and u1 are equal, and the path component of u1 is a prefix of that of u. Note that other components (scheme, query, and fragment) don’t matter to applicability for authentication purposes.

The following example shows how to use urllib2 with basic HTTP authentication:

import urllib2

x = urllib2.HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm( )
x.add_password(None, 'http://myhost.com/', 'auser',
               'apassword')
auth = urrlib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler(x)
opener = urllib2.build_opener(auth)
urllib2.install_opener(opener)

flob = urllib2.urlopen('http://myhost.com/index.html')
for line in flob.readlines( ): print line,