Python: urllib2.HTTPError: HTTP Error 401: Unauthorized

authentication, python

Solution

Here is working code

import urllib2

url = 'http://www.abc.com/index.html'
username = 'user'
password = 'pass'
p = urllib2.HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm()

p.add_password(None, url, username, password)

handler = urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler(p)
opener = urllib2.build_opener(handler)
urllib2.install_opener(opener)

page = urllib2.urlopen(url).read()

Problem

I was trying to load a web page, but I ran into this problem. I do have the username and password, but I don't know how to use them in python code. I looked up on python tutorial, and this is what I wrote: ``` import urllib2 password_mgr = urllib2.HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm() username = 'user' password = 'pass' top_level_url = "www.something.com:80" password_mgr.add_password(None, top_level_url, username, password) handler = urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler(password_mgr) opener = urllib2.build_opener(handler) opener.open('http://www.something.com/h/h.html') urllib2.install_opener(opener) response = urllib2.urlopen() page = response.read() print page ``` Anything wrong?

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