A tutorial on Basic Authentication, with examples in Python. urllib2 supports fetching URLs for many "URL schemes" (identified by the string before the ":" in URL ...

The :mod:`urllib2` module defines functions and classes which help in opening URLs (mostly HTTP) in a complex world --- basic and digest authentication, redirections, cookies and more. .. function:: ...

txdata is a sequence of (field,value) pairs for a POST request txheaders is a sequence of (field,value) pairs of any extra headers you would like to add If you are multiparting post/putting a form, ...