How to use urllib with username/password authentication in python 3?
Thankfully to you guys I finally figured out the way it works. Here is my code: request = urllib.request.Request(‘http://mysite/admin/index.cgi?index=127’) base64string = base64.b64encode(bytes(‘%s:%s’ % (‘login’, ‘password’),’ascii’)) request.add_header(“Authorization”, “Basic %s” % base64string.decode(‘utf-8’)) result = urllib.request.urlopen(request) resulttext = result.read() After all, there is one more difference with urllib: the resulttext variable in my case had the type of … Read more