Question

I am trying to make a request to an RSS feed that requires a cookie, using python. I thought using urllib2 and adding the appropriate heading would be sufficient, but the request keeps saying unautherized.

Im guessing it could be a problem on the remote sites’ side, but wasnt sure. How do I use urllib2 along with cookies? is there a better package for this (like httplib, mechanize, curl)

Answer 1

import urllib2
opener = urllib2.build_opener()
opener.addheaders.append(('Cookie', 'cookiename=cookievalue'))
f = opener.open("http://example.com/")