HTTPS log in with urllib2

Question

I currently have a little script that downloads a webpage and extracts some data I\'m interested in. Nothing fancy.

Currently I\'m downloading the page like so:

Answer 1

The requests module provides a modern API to HTTP/HTTPS capabilities.

import requests

url = 'https://www.someserver.com/toplevelurl/somepage.htm'

res = requests.get(url, auth=('USER', 'PASSWORD'))

status = res.status_code
text   = res.text