Logging in and using cookies in pycurl

Question

I need to download a file that is on a password protected page. To get to the page manually I first have to authenticate via an ordinary login page. I want to use curl to fetc

Answer 1

I believe Curl will store the cookies but you need to use them explicitly. I've only ever used the command line interface for this though. Scanning the documentation I think you might want to try:

C.setopt(pycurl.COOKIEFILE, 'cookie.txt')

(before the second request)